I was a participant in the ‘other site’ when there was an active seed trading sub. Is there a Lemmy equivalent or is that something we could do in this group?
You could make a community for it. Be the change you want to see!
You should start a community if there isn’t one. :)
I hesitate because I’m not sure I have the time or dedication to moderate one.
Also, there are so many communities that are inactive, I feel like it might just be yet another empty one. I’d rather see more engagement in places like this that could really use the additional traffic.
The only reason I didn’t just start a post to do so is that I’m not sure it’d be allowed or if maybe there’s already people doing this somewhere else. I don’t want to take focus away from them either.
If there’s enough interest here I would totally create a new post with guidelines to help people connect. Also, this requires trading personal information somehow and that can get weird. I’m not worried about it, but I expect other people would be.
I strongly discourage seed trading from unknown and untested sources.
There are tons of diseases and pests that can be shared with he seed. Many of them once established can wreck havoc on local agriculture and the environment.
This isn’t some esoteric “Maybe” it will happen. It happens every year, constantly, all around the world.
But hey, go ahead and fuck up the planet because you want to have a hobby.
