Gauging interest post. Do any of you fabulous folk want to help start a cutting swap community? Always loved them on reddit. Half of my collection is from those fine folks! :)

  • OtterAEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    How does it work? Do the cuttings survive in the mail, or is it a local thing?

    I’ve been lurking here to learn more lol

    If it’s a new community, could it include other types of exchanges? Seeds for example, I’ve seen some things like that locally with seed libraries and neighborhood groups

      • OtterAEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Cool! I’d love to see those here :)

        For regional ones, you could make/promote them on the regional instances. This could also be great to promote on other fediverse platforms

        • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          One major one is good until it gets steam, I think. People can put the country in the title.

          • 7EP6vuI@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            why not use this community? just add tags to the title: [Plant Swap] [Australia] giving away beginner friendly Hoya carnosa / porcelainflower / wax plant you can still learn about the plant and have general discussions in the comments? why split the community?

            • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              It’s more like propagating! :) It’s a bit easier to manage communities when you have different containers for different modes as people barely look at sidebars and stickies as is… There I can make it really obvious how these posts should be formatted and not everyone will want to see trades. I was planning on having tags like that, yes! :) it makes it a system and less cluttered with clear places for reviews, etc. Makes it easier for bot setup too, like in plantid. Going to set up a formatting reminder.