@manton You could still let authenticated users export their own feed list. Or have a per-feed setting where users can flag a feed as “private,” in case you decide to ever offer public OPML endpoints.

What is FeedLand? Is it a browser based RSS reader? I haven’t created an account with FeedLand and so cannot play with it at the moment.

@crossingthethreshold It has an RSS reader in it, and an interface for managing feeds and publishing custom timelines of news. This post from Dave is another intro.

@manton I keep meaning to take time to check out feedland, but haven’t gotten around to it. Do you know of a better explainer than just poking around on their site provides?

Thank you.

@cchelberg There’s this blog post and the docs, but poking around was actually the best way for me because then you can see how it works with real feeds.

@manton thanks!

@cchelberg I stop reading the doc at this line “First, go to feedland.org and log in with your Twitter account.”.

I no longer use Twitter, even less for authentication. Pass.

@jasonekratz coming from this guy, it surprises me to say the least.

@numericcitizen I think some users and developers—against accumulated experience, and against many rational and straightforward arguments—believe that big internet players will somehow “be cool”, will think of the internet itself as more important than anything they might craft to put on it. And so would never, for example, leave users in a lurch by switching off something that had been switched on “the whole time”—this, rather than re(re)re:re-inventing put_me_on_net().

@bkryer @numericcitizen …or put another way, some folks running big regional banks maybe as stupid as some running tech cos—but not so stupid as to wreck the market they themselves exist in.

@numericcitizen I thought the same as you. I wanted to like it, or at least try it - but Twitter authentication was a locked door for me. But FeedLand has now switched to email authentication, same as Micro.blog.

@krinkle Great point. I think we have to be a little careful here, but we’ll do something.

@numericcitizen He’s removed that. You now have to create an account on FeedLand.

@writingslowly yep. Just registered. But as an Inoreader user, isn’t it a redondant service?

@numericcitizen I guess now we can sign up we’ll find out 😁

lots of questions re feedland in this thread … highly recommend you follow @dave (winer) … feedland is his latest offering to the world on reading and writing online, he also ‘knows a thing or two’ about RSS, Podcasts and interoperability.

@JohnPhilpin – thanks for linking me into this thread. i’ll check in to see if people have questions.

would love this as OPML showcasing is exactly what I want to build at OURSS.SOCIAL (without the Twitter loginwall)