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Any interest in a cutting swap community? Also, would love a hand or two! (mander.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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! :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Generally, it should be local to the country at least and weather and time need to be minded. Seeds are included! Check out these for examples:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I like it :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.