I have a test application running at test.rsscloud.io on ports 80 and 9876.
The following code works:
curl --location --request POST 'https://brokenriverbooks.com/?rsscloud=notify' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'domain=test.rsscloud.io' \
--data-urlencode 'port=80' \
--data-urlencode 'path=/feedupdated-s8759' \
--data-urlencode 'registerProcedure=' \
--data-urlencode 'protocol=http-post' \
--data-urlencode 'url1=https://brokenriverbooks.com/feed/'
However if you change the port to 9876 it fails. For some reason the rssCloud plugin seems unable to hit ports that are not 80.
The upshot of this, as far as I know -- we should now be cool with wordpress.com's servers.
The way to test it, I guess is with a wordpress.com hosted site, try renewing its subscription and see what happens?
Is this correct?