Programmatically setting the author of a feed

The users on my site have a custom field ‘rss’. I want my users to be able to subscribe to feeds, using this field. I also want the user that subscribed to a particular feed, to be the author of the posts generated by that feed. Programatically subscribing to feeds works, but I dont know how to automatically set the author. This is what i got so far:

add_action( 'profile_update', 'register_rss_feed', 10, 2 );

function register_rss_feed( $user_id, $old_user_data ) {
  $rssUrl = get_field('rss', 'user_' . $user_id);
  if($rssUrl){
    $user = get_user_by("id", $user_id);
    $link_id = FeedWordPress::syndicate_link($user->display_name, $rssUrl, $rssUrl);
    var_dump($link_id);
    if (is_numeric($link_id) and $link_id > 0) :
      //Do something to set the author for the feed, using $user_id
    endif;
  }
}

Thanks in advance

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