Getting started

White Rabbit is a social network for curiosity. It shows what the people you follow are exploring on the internet, and lets you share what you're exploring too.

The thing you share is a rabbit hole: the trail of pages you followed, what sent you down it, and what you came away with. Other people can read it, follow the same trail, and pick it up where you left off.

1. Go to Sign up and continue with Google, Apple, or GitHub, or with your email address: we email you a 6-digit code to type in on the page. To use a password instead, choose Sign up with a password.
2. With a password, choose your name and a username. With Google, Apple, GitHub, or a code, we make you a username to start with, and you choose your name and your own username as you finish signing up. Your username is how people find and mention you, and it appears in your profile's web address and in links you copy.
3. Explore a real trail first, or choose a few topics and people to follow. Interests and follows are optional, and you can change both later. If you signed up from a link someone shared, you can follow them here too; they'll see that you joined only if you do.

You can log in later with the same method, or with Email me a code: we email you a one-time code to type in on the page. An account made with a code has no password until you set one in Settings. You must be at least 13 years old to use White Rabbit.

Home has three views. Switch between them at the top of the page.

• Discover: public rabbit holes from people you don't follow yet, picked for you. See Discover.
• Following: rabbit holes from the people and topics you follow. The ones from the last two weeks you haven't read come first, newest first, with posts from people you follow ahead of topics; the rest are under Earlier. When they share new ones, you get one notification a day saying so. If you follow nothing yet, Discover and Following offer the topics your reading leaned toward, one tap each.
• Trends: what people are becoming curious about this week, topics picking up, and people exploring the same things as you.

Without an account you can still browse Discover, search, and open the rabbit holes, topics, people, and invite links you find. Liking, saving, forking, commenting, following, posting, and Rabbit need an account.

Each post shows where the rabbit hole started, a short version of its trail, where it ended, and how long it took. Open one to see the whole trail.

In Bookmarks, use Read next to choose a trail to return to. Continue exploring on a trail you've opened returns you to the step you last opened. Reading progress, your queue, and muted trail updates are saved on this device for your account. Watch updates saves a trail and makes new pages easier to find; muting keeps the bookmark.

Discover learns from what you do on White Rabbit, so it gets more like you the more you use it. Things that take effort count more than things that don't:

• Most: forking a rabbit hole, commenting, sharing, and saving.
• More: liking, and how long you spend on a rabbit hole after opening it.
• Some: opening one, resting the pointer on a post to see its links and comments, and how long a post stays on your screen.
• Against: scrolling straight past, and Not interested in a post's … menu, which hides it and shows you fewer like it.

Each of these counts toward the post's topics, the person who shared it, and the sites on its trail. Older activity counts less as time goes on, so Discover follows what you're into now. About a third of every page is picked at random from outside your usual topics, so you keep finding things you didn't know to look for; once Discover knows your taste, those are marked Something different.

Discover only uses what you do on White Rabbit, never your browsing. Signed in, what it learns is kept with your account so it follows you between devices; only you can see it. To start over, go to Settings → Capture & privacy → Reset Discover. Select Discover again at the top of Home for a fresh mix.

There are two ways to make one.

• Let White Rabbit notice it. Install the White Rabbit extension once, and turn on Rabbit, White Rabbit's AI, when White Rabbit asks. The rabbit holes Rabbit finds in your browsing then show up on Home. Nothing to press. Nothing is shared until you review it and choose to. See The browser extension.
• Write it yourself. Select +, then Write a rabbit hole, say what it was about and what started it, and paste the links you followed. White Rabbit fetches previews and suggests an order, topics, and branches. To keep a single link for later, paste it under + and select Save privately. See Rabbit holes and the Trail.

On a computer, the navigation runs down the left edge of the screen. On a phone, it's the bar at the bottom.

Settings and this help center are in the menu under your profile picture, at the bottom of the left edge on a computer.

• Learn how to read a Trail in Rabbit holes and the Trail.
• Choose who sees what in Sharing and visibility.
• See every control you have in Privacy controls.
• Block, report, and choose who can reach you in Blocking, reporting, and limits.
• Read the Terms & policies that apply when you use White Rabbit.
• Questions? Email contact.whiterabbt.com@gmail.com.