Had planned to ask just that. Dglenn, I can't imagine a non logged in user would bother with an rss feed if there's another address at which that user can be pointed.
(I think I'm slightly confused about how RSS works; thought paid users created feeds off other sites? Or perhaps it's just that paid users set up LJ feeds from the RSS coming from other sites? )
If a site already publishes an RSS feed (as LJ-clones do), then a (paid/permanent) LJ user can create an LJ subscription to that feed (that is, get LJ to subscribe to the other site's feed and republish that with an LJ ID that can be added to your friends/watch list). The meanings of 'feed' and 'subscription' get a little confusing because of the multiple layers involved.
AFAIK, RSS feeds do not include friends-locked entries. (I do not post locked entries often -- three so far, I think, since I started using LJ -- and as has already been noted, a friends-only entry posted directly to LJ would still not ever have ads on it because only logged-in users could see it; but it's something to be aware of regarding RSS in general.)
I got around to checking an RSS feed into LJ while logged out. The feed's recent-entries page didn't have an ad on it, but that's the view it makes the least sense for anyone to spend time at anyhow. Going to the feed copy of an individual entry, LJ did add an ad. A logged-in LJ user seeing that on their friendspage wouldn't see the ad, nor when they clicked through to the read/leave-comments page for that syndicated entry, but a) a currently logged-out user or a non-user going to the read-comments link (or following a cut-tag) would see ads, and b) a non-LJ-user following a link to the syndicated entry from somebody else's journal would see ads.
I don't know whether that would happen often enough for me to care or not. Neeed mooore daaaata.
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(I think I'm slightly confused about how RSS works; thought paid users created feeds off other sites? Or perhaps it's just that paid users set up LJ feeds from the RSS coming from other sites? )
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AFAIK, RSS feeds do not include friends-locked entries. (I do not post locked entries often -- three so far, I think, since I started using LJ -- and as has already been noted, a friends-only entry posted directly to LJ would still not ever have ads on it because only logged-in users could see it; but it's something to be aware of regarding RSS in general.)
I got around to checking an RSS feed into LJ while logged out. The feed's recent-entries page didn't have an ad on it, but that's the view it makes the least sense for anyone to spend time at anyhow. Going to the feed copy of an individual entry, LJ did add an ad. A logged-in LJ user seeing that on their friendspage wouldn't see the ad, nor when they clicked through to the read/leave-comments page for that syndicated entry, but a) a currently logged-out user or a non-user going to the read-comments link (or following a cut-tag) would see ads, and b) a non-LJ-user following a link to the syndicated entry from somebody else's journal would see ads.
I don't know whether that would happen often enough for me to care or not. Neeed mooore daaaata.
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