Forage.ink — A Personal Intelligence Engine

The internet was supposed to make us more informed. Instead it made us more manipulated — fed a steady diet of outrage, distraction, and sponsored content by algorithms optimized for engagement, not understanding. Forage is the antidote. It is a self-hosted, keyword-driven research and publishing engine powered by AI — built to surface what matters to you, filtered through your context, delivered without noise, without ads, and without any algorithm working against your interests. You define the topics. You own the feeds. You set the keywords. You publish on your own terms. Forage does the rest — crawling sources, filtering signal from noise, delivering a clean stream of ideas worth your attention, and syndicating your voice back out to the world. No feed designed to keep you scrolling. No sponsored content dressed as news. No shadow profile built from your reading habits. Just the ideas your mind is hungry for — and a place to respond to them. Forage runs on your own server. Your data goes nowhere. The intelligence is yours. It is not a product. It is a tool — sharp, quiet, and entirely in your service. Forage is built on open protocols and against walled gardens. This is not merely a technical preference — it is a values position. Open protocols supported: RSS / Atom the universal content layer ActivityPub the Mastodon/Fediverse social layer Reddit JSON API public, no auth required for reading Tumblr RSS per-blog and per-tag feeds YouTube RSS per-channel feeds Podcast RSS universal podcast distribution POSSE Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere Deliberately excluded: X / Twitter API closed, algorithmic, adversarial Facebook / Meta walled garden, API gutted post-Cambridge Analytica TikTok closed, no public content API, adversarial by design When a platform won't share its content through open protocols, that is itself information about what the platform is optimizing for. Forage does not chase those platforms. Their users will find Forage when they are ready. Forage is not only a consumption tool. It is a publishing layer. The model: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Your Forage blog is the canonical record of your voice. When you write a post, comment on an article, or repost something with your annotation, that content lives first on your server, under your domain, in your database. From there, Forage syndicates outward — to Reddit, Tumblr, Mastodon, Disqus/Coral comment threads, wherever the source adapter supports it. Your blog also publishes its own RSS feed. Others can follow you through any RSS reader. You become a node in the same open protocol network you consume from. This is the Tumblr model, but on infrastructure you own. Forage is designed to replace mindless scrolling — Reddit, TikTok, Facebook — with something that feels equally satisfying but serves your actual interests. The feed should feel good to scroll. Variable card heights, inline media, effortless momentum. The Tumblr scroll was right. Forage inherits that feel. The difference: the algorithm is yours. You wrote the keywords. You chose the sources. Nothing is optimizing against you.