What does it mean to subscribe to an OpenID account?

[davidlevine]

OpenID accounts like davidlevine.livejournal.com offer Dreamwidth users the option to subscribe (by hovering over the OpenID icon or going to the account's profile page). However, subscribing doesn't seem to have any effect.

Similarly, an OpenID account can grant access to a Dreamwidth account. But since an OpenID account can't have a journal, I don't think this has any effect either.

Is this a not-yet-implemented feature? I can imagine that it would be very useful if a Dreamwidth user could subscribe to a LiveJournal user's OpenID account to include the RSS feed of that LJ user in their reading list, but this doesn't seem to be how it's working currently.

(By the way, how do I code a reference to an OpenID account so it's clickable and gets the OpenID icon? <user name="davidlevine.livejournal.com"> doesn't work.)

Comments

[stepps]

I'm going to presume that once that magical feature of importing an LJ or LJ clone friends page to your DW reading page, those LJ users will display as their OpenID names. But then, this is just how I'd deal with that feature when it comes up, I might be way off base.

If that's how it is going to work, it makes sense that one can subscribe/grant access to an OpenID, and therefore allow editing of a reading list from multiple LJ/clone sites from DW, instead of having to edit your friends/reading lists on those sites to edit what you see in DW.