I'm diving into Lemmy, been on Masto since 2019. Also a big Reddit user trying to get away, and I hope to find a feature here that's an equivalent to MultiReddits (or 'Custom Reddits' as they seem to be called now).

The idea is: A way to view a collection of specific Lemmy communities, probably around a theme like gaming, wholesome topics, or tech, etc. Sometimes I like to focus on a specific corner of the internet instead of the flood of everything I subscribe to. If you need examples, here is my personal gaming multireddit and my HappyPlace multireddit (no not like that).

Is this possible with Lemmy? Thanks for any help.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Piefed has this feature recently, lemmy doesn’t yet.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And it’s interoperable with Lemmy for those unfamiliar. So you’ll be able to see and interact with the same content you can on Lemmy.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As far as I know, it is possible on piefed since a recent update - you may want to check it out!

https://join.piefed.social/try/

If you want to get a gist of what it looks like, https://lemmy.world/u/mesamunefire maintains one for PeerTube and other Fediverse videos:

https://piefed.social/f/fediversevideos

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Yep! It works really well!

Plus the feeds can be used for threads not necessarily just on Lemmy/piefed/etc... but also mastodon/peertube,/pixelfed etc. Works closer to a big RSS except any interaction like upvotes/downvotes, comments and others. It's very well thought out.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Relevant discussion: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That pull request was opened five years ago. Meanwhile, PieFed has this feature in production already.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Piefed has an awesome dev. And the tech stack is very easy to read (in my opinion).

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ouch

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

It is hard to even keep up with all that PieFed is doing - like Easier community discovery - PieFed knows all the communities already, and if not tomorrow then later this week will be something else, it's so very active!:-D

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The app Arctic for Lemmy lets you combine multiple communities into one feed.

[–] annette_runner@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

That would be great. I would love multiple custom feeds.

[–] wowleak@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eternity has this too. Multicomunity in the side panel.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

It's bugged atm.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago

You can do it in the threadiverse but that would be on PieFed not Lemmy.

[–] Barrymore@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Probably not a great workaround, but you could subscribe to the communities rss feeds and group them in a feed reader

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This would be good for instances if a default custom collection could be added to the "subscribed, local, all" selection.

Then an instance could show the content it wants to represent.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Instance can hide some communities from their All feeds: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677

A bit if a workaround, but can potentially achieve that

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

See also: instances with individual all feeds https://reddthat.com/post/36815847

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

It isn’t with lemmy. The two main solutions is either to use Piefed. Which is a desktop only software that federates with lemmy and has this feature.

Or if on mobile, have a couple different accounts of different instances and use each as a “multireddit”.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

One of the mobile apps has this feature, might be summit or connect. but otherwise no.