RSS Feed Garden
The Feed Garden is where you connect anything that publishes on a schedule — your own blog, a news outlet, a subreddit's topic feed, or a search across the Fediverse and Bluesky — and watch how it scores over time.
What you can grow here
Two sensor kinds live in the garden: RSS/Atom feeds (/client/feeds) and social feeds (/client/social, Mastodon and Bluesky). Between them they cover most of the "watch this over time" use cases that don't need a chat bot:
- Watch your own published voice over time. Point a feed at your own blog or changelog and track real things about your writing — not vibes, actual valence, hedging, and certainty trends across posts.
- Watch partisanship of news sources passively, without interpreting. Aldous carries dedicated left/right/center partisan-framing sensors. Subscribing a news outlet's RSS feed lets you watch its framing drift over time as a geometric read — Foreshock never asserts what's true, only how a source's language leans and how that leaning is moving.
- Watch communities that export topic feeds. Many forums and subreddit-style platforms publish per-topic RSS. Subscribe to the ones that matter and treat them the same as any other source.
- An ad-hoc connector for lots of small topics. Social feeds can track either an account's timeline or a keyword/tag search, so a Mastodon or Bluesky search is a lightweight way to watch dozens of niche topics without standing up a bot for each one.
Adding an RSS or Atom feed
From RSS feeds, give it a label and the feed URL, and choose how many words per item to sample (0–500, default 200). Foreshock guards against temporal misattribution and rate-limits against runaway apps automatically. The title plus that many words of each new item are scored and immediately discarded — only the scores are kept, polled roughly every 15 minutes by default.
!!!SCREEN SHOT: The RSS feeds table, showing a few configured feeds with their status, items scored, and last-signal columns.
Adding a social feed
From Social feeds, pick Mastodon or Bluesky and either an account to follow or a search (tags, keywords, or phrases). Mastodon needs your instance URL and an access token for most instance searches; Bluesky rides the public AppView, so no key is required. Social feeds poll more often than RSS — lively enough to catch a fast-moving topic, calmer than a chat channel.
Slots and plans
Feed and social-feed slots come from your plan's allotment (Volcanic: 1 each; Tectonic: 5 each, additional at $1–2/mo; Seismologist: 10 each, shared across orgs at a discount). Add-ons and one-time 30-day top-ups are available from Upgrade once you're at your limit.
What's stored
Exactly the privacy mandate applies here too: for RSS, the feed entry and the prepared specimen text are kept only long enough to score and cite the source; for social feeds, only vectors and scores persist — never the post text or its metadata.
Where to go next
Whatever you connect here shows up in Graphs & Data the same way any other sensor does. If what you actually want to watch is a private chat server rather than a public feed, see Chat Room Safety & Vibe instead.