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If you're on Dreamwidth (which you probably are if you're reading this, you can add RSS/Atom feeds to your reading page by going to the feed page and copying the feed URL into the box.

One caveat, if nobody else has done it yet, you'll have to create and name a proxy account for the feed, which will then potentially be discoverable by any DW user. I've thus far been hesitant to add any feed that wasn't already public enough to have at least one subscriber before I searched for it.

Maybe... maybe seek the feed owner's permission before creating accounts for their feeds on here.

Good posting to everyone!

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mathsbian

My thinking is that if they were advertising their RSS feeds on cohost then they were expecting to get added to feed readers that save things like this (surely Dreamwidth isn’t the only one that does it this way?), or to get shared to more people by their followers, or similar amplification. If they asked people to put their button up on their sites, too, like. These people want to be discoverable especially to other people from cohost. Probably a bit different for like. Your hypothetical IRL best friend’s tumblr blog that they don’t even know has functioning RSS. Or your hypothetical mutual that only shared their new neocities over DMs. If that makes sense. So I’m definitely going to try to think more about this before adding whatever feed I want in the future, but I’m not feeling too badly about making feed proxies for the blogs I have buttons for…

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ysabetwordsmith

>>My thinking is that if they were advertising their RSS feeds on cohost then they were expecting to get added to feed readers that save things like this (surely Dreamwidth isn’t the only one that does it this way?), or to get shared to more people by their followers, or similar amplification. <<

Valid logic if the feedbox is something you have to add to your page on purpose. If it appears automatically, not so much. Dreamwidth seems to create it automatically in the main module set. It can be turned off in the style editor, but you have to know how to do that, and not everyone does. (Go to Customize Style, go to the left sidebar menu and click Modules. Find Syndication and uncheck it.)

>>If they asked people to put their button up on their sites, too, like. These people want to be discoverable especially to other people from cohost.<<

Agreed. This is also information that people may place in their profile, a sticky post, or a blanket statement.

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upthorn

That's probably a reasonable rule of thumb, especially the part about asking people to add buttons!

I just have irrational anxiety about these things