Joining Karmyq

There are two ways into Karmyq — an invitation from someone already here, or open registration. Both end the same way: with you standing in your first community, looking at the beginnings of your own web.

The invited path (the best way in)

If someone sent you an invite link, open it. You'll land on their invitation itself: who invited you, and which community they're bringing you into. Your account form lives right inside that context — fill it in and you join their community directly, no browsing required.

Your inviter matters here. The moment you accept, Karmyq remembers the invitation bond between you — the relationship that brought you in. It isn't trust yet: trust on Karmyq is earned through real exchanges, never granted by a link. But it's where your story starts, and it becomes trust the first time you help each other.

The open path

No invitation? Register from the sign-up page, then pick a community to join — from the discovery list, or from a community's own page if you followed a link straight there. You can search by location or interests. Your first join works exactly like an invited arrival — minus the inviter — whichever page you join from.

The arrival moment

After your first join — either path — you land on a welcome screen showing your first belonging graph: you, placed on the ring of the community you just entered, among your new neighbours.

• On the invited path, a dashed line connects you to your inviter — that's your invitation bond, drawn differently from trust bonds because it hasn't been earned yet. Every exchange between you makes it real.
• On the open path, you'll see yourself among your neighbours with no bonds yet. That's not empty — it's the honest starting picture. Bonds appear as you give and receive help.

One button takes you to the community's open asks — the fastest way to form your first real bond is to answer one. You can also skip; the welcome only shows once either way.

Watching your web grow (and fade)

Your network view (My Network) tells the rest of the story. Newly formed bonds carry a bright "New bond" emphasis for about a month. Established bonds show as strong or warm. Bonds you haven't tended fade — first visibly softer, then nearly forgotten, and eventually Karmyq lets the detail go entirely (see Your Memory and Relationships). Helping each other again at any point keeps a bond alive.

That's the whole loop: an invitation or a join brings you in, exchanges turn presence into trust, and the graph never claims more than what actually happened.