What it's like, what it's for, where it goes
Every social site ranks by engagement. Engagement is free, so it's gamed. YerTruth ranks by money, which isn't.
Comparables
What it resembles, and the one thing that's different each time.
| Site | Ranks by | YerTruth instead |
|---|---|---|
| X / Twitter | Likes, retweets | The comment with the most money behind it is on top. A bot farm can fake ten thousand likes. It can't fake ten thousand dollars. |
| Upvotes | An upvote costs nothing, so brigading works. Here a vote is a payment. | |
| Community Notes | Cross-partisan consensus | Notes need people who usually disagree to agree. YerTruth needs someone to care enough to pay. Consensus versus conviction. |
| Polymarket | Bets on what will happen | Bets on what something means. "This tweet was a pump signal" — priced. |
| Genius | Annotations on lyrics | Same idea — annotate a text — but backing an annotation costs, so the ones that survive are the ones someone stood behind. |
| Wikipedia | Edit wars | Talk pages are where meaning gets fought over, for free, forever. YerTruth is that fight, free to join, but money decides what rises. |
Analogies
A courtroom exhibit table. The evidence is laid out in order. Counsel argue over what each piece means. Except anyone can be counsel, and backing an argument costs.
A museum with crowd-written placards. The artifact is fixed. The label under it is whatever the public paid most to say.
Rap Genius for receipts.
A prediction market for interpretation.
What it could be used for
A token launch, tweet by tweet
Every post from the founder, in order. The community prices each one: roadmap, rug signal, nothing. Six months later the timeline is a record of who called it and when.
A scandal
A journalist builds the timeline. Readers annotate what each statement meant at the time. The labels become the public's memory of it.
A trade saga
A player's posts during a contract dispute. Fans on each side pay to frame each one. The timeline ends up telling two stories at once.
A court case
Public filings in order. Observers annotate. The best-funded reading of each filing floats to the top.
A deleted account
Someone nukes their history. Their posts live on here, with context nobody can remove.
A memorial
A timeline of someone's best posts, sealed so it can never be edited, with the money going to their family.
Features that follow
- Blue pill / red pillbuiltexpanding
Two parallel narratives on one timeline. Blue is the story as told, red is the story as found. Today the pills switch the look; next they switch the comments. - Sealed timelinesbuilt
Locked forever at creation. A reader can trust it wasn't quietly edited later — not even by its owner. - Ask to addbuilt
Strangers submit posts, the owner approves or denies. Crowd-sourced, owner-curated. - Cross-timeline linksbuilt
A comment on one timeline points at another. Timelines cite each other. - Move, add, removebuilt
Owners arrange their timeline — and can connect Claude Code with one command, no wallet needed, to do it for them. - The potdesigned
2% of each post's activity goes to that post's top commenter. Being right pays. - Owner layoutsplanned
Owners pick how their timeline is laid out, from a set of named options. - Bountiesidea
An owner puts $500 on a post: what did this mean? Best answer takes it. - Agingidea
Labels get revisited. Called it or aged badly, priced again a year later. - Timelines as cardsidea
A whole timeline becomes one post in another. Nesting.
There's no coin because the coins are the point already. Every existing token is money you can put behind an opinion. YerTruth doesn't need its own — it needs yours.
Payments on Solana and Robinhood Chain. The short version at yertruth.com/explainer. Full terms at yertruth.com.