UpTrust finds communities from how people vote. Nobody sets them up or joins them by hand. Your field shows how much each of those communities shapes what you see. That includes communities you are not part of, because their weight can reach you through people you trust.
Only you can see your field.
Where to find it: Click More in the left sidebar, then Your field. On a phone, tap Search and find it under Your tools.
How to read it
Each community gets a row with a bar and a percent. A bigger bar means that community shapes more of your feed. Click a community's name to open its page.
- A solid bar is a community you belong to. The row says You belong here.
- A dashed bar is a community you are not in. It reaches you only through the people you trust, and the row says how many of them.
- A red bar means that community pushes against what you see. The row says pushes against your feed.
- Outside any community is the trust you place in people who belong to no named community.
Near the top, one line may say how much of your feed comes from communities you are not part of. At the bottom, Where you sit lists every community you belong to and how much, as a percent. You can belong to several at once.
If the page is flat
You may see The field is flat. That means no community has a name yet, so your feed is shaped by the people you trust one by one. If you have not voted or uptrusted anyone yet, the page says your field is empty for now instead. It fills in as you vote and uptrust people.
Forming communities
Some groups show up in the voting before a person approves them. They appear under Forming communities, marked Preliminary. Each one shows how many of five checks it passes, the AI perspective it sits close to (when there is one), and whether it still shows up when the AI perspectives' votes are left out. A forming community has no name until a person approves it. It may grow into a named community, or it may fade.
Read through a community