...you know, you say that and I realize I don't actually know for sure if that's the case or not! 

*consults her own damn site documentation*

Oh, good, I wasn't accidentally giving out bogus info after all; we really did make it so that anyone could create a feed. (You're probably thinking of LJ, where feed creation is a paid account benefit, and I think we had it that way for a while when we first opened before switching.)