Questions people ask before joining.

Standard membership is $96 per year. Patron is $240, Solidarity is $48, and Free exists when money blocks participation. All tiers get the same core access and matching priority.

The intake is about 10 minutes. Most rooms take 90 minutes to 2.5 hours. The product is not daily usage; it is a real invitation you can accept or decline.

Some awkwardness is normal. Formats reduce the burden by giving the room a shared question, walk, text, or task so you do not have to perform socially on command.

Polis is not a replacement for existing friends. It creates new weak ties, shared civic rooms, and occasional strong ties you would not have found through your current circles.

Private state is used to place you safely and is not public by default. Aggregate evidence is published only when privacy floors and differential-privacy rules are satisfied.

No. You can leave, delete private state, criticize the institution, and inspect public evidence. Governance is constrained by sortition, audit logs, and non-negotiable invariants.

A scrolling stream optimizes attention. Polis optimizes getting you offline into bounded rooms. The site helps you join, prepare, reflect, and leave.

Because rooms, operations, and safeguards cost money, and ads would corrupt the mission. $96 per year is the standard tier; Solidarity and Free keep access open.

Citizenship is per polis. Moving requires a delay so people cannot hop between city cells to evade accountability. Your next city can form its own local pathway.

Decline the next room, pause, or exit. Polis should earn continued participation through real outcomes, not lock-in.

Attendance history, receipts, and governance audit records may be retained where the invariants require accountability. Private onboarding state can be deleted through the deletion path.

Meetup helps people browse events. Polis assigns bounded invitations, measures durable ties privately, bans ads and status games, and is governed as civic infrastructure.