There’s a community on Facebook called Bunz. They’re about trading things you don’t need for ones you do.
Would there be interest in a thread or a dedicated community here? I’m suggesting a thread, too, because there’s obviously some advantage to locality.

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    1 year ago

    I like your idea!

    There isn’t really a good way to filter posts within a community yet on Lemmy, so I was worried about users getting flooded with buy/sell posts. There’s a reason this community and r/Montreal has rules about buy/sell posts.

    However I, too, do see an advantage in keeping the community united. We could have a weekly buy / sell thread for the greater Montreal region, as you suggested.

    If people are interested, I could make a bot that automatically creates the thread for the current week every, let’s say, Tuesday, and automatically pins it and unpins the old one. Let me know!

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      1 year ago

      Bunz, at least, actively encourages trades instead of sales. It attracts a different clientele. If we don’t need anything specific were usually trade for consumables.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting concept, I’m not on Facebook so I didn’t know about Bunz.

        Encouraging trading instead of selling sounds like it would probably be healthier than encouraging a buy / sell thread. People will tend to trade only for what they need.