I have a question. I was still sort of barely using reddit when they introduced the multireddits. Look. I even have some. But...I've never used them. Seriously. Never. I made them, I tried to use them, and then I just...didn't. Can someone tell me how they use the multireddits. Why they use them. Etc. Etc. Etc.
That feature wasn't available when I stopped using reddit, but I used bookmarks with the /r/sub1sub2...+subn for subjects with lots of subs that I wanted to dig through periodically rather than see mixed in with everything else. The 30-something music subreddits I was reading, the programming subs, ... Mostly it was a workaround for reddit not handling being subscribed to subs with vastly different sizes/traffic well.
I had different multireddits. They were each basically used for different moods. I had one called "humansbeinghuman" when I wanted to watch some slapstick, dangerous stunts, or fights. I had another called "goodbodygoodmind" which had stuff in it that I thought would help me be a better person, like a weight loss sub, a sub for decluttering and minimizing possessions, and a bunch of creative hobbies I enjoy like worldbuilding and game development. I also subscribed to a community-created multireddit called "safe for work porn" which was all the beautiful images of nature, landscapes, food, architecture, and other cool stuff. But I also tried to make sure that when I made a multireddit, I only combined subreddits with similar activity levels, so the multi filled out evenly and one sub wasn't dominating the content of the multi and burying everything else. I mentioned this problem about Hubski recently: and I think a multireddit-like solution (grouped feeds) will help alleviate that problem. On Hubski, I'd have one feed that's entirely music tags, while another would be my main feed with all the other stuff. (Though I might later subdivide further if it became necessary). With only one feed, a single big tag like #music can really make the single feed go boom.
When I was using them I kind of had a system. One for political news, which had /r/news, /r/worldnews, /r/worldevents, /r/world{etc}, /r/foreignpolicy, /r/nottheonion, etc. One for gaming, which had /r/gaming, /r/{insert consoles I'm playing on here}, /r/{insert games I am currently playing here}. One for tech news, /r/technology, /r/futurology, /r/apple, /r/windows, /r/unix, /r/openbsd, /r/freebsd, /r/linux, etc..... One for legal news, /r/law, /r/patents, /r/copyright, /r/history, /r/eff, /r/yro, /r/privacy, /r/cyberlaws, etc. One for the crazy people, /r/conspiracy, and all that crazy shit that spawns off of it (kind of fun to read every once in awhile how nuts some people are). So really, it was to group a bunch of like reddits together, but you could do other things too. Some days I just wanted to read tech news and legal news, some days I was just there for gaming. Some days I was just there to watch the crazy people go nuts and feel a bit saner. Some days I'd open up two windows and make them side by side, one with one feed, one with another. I'm noticing similar issues here. Like for instance, I want to follow music tastes across the site but I don't want that mixing in with my regular feed, I'd rather have that a separate feed, food tags, etc.