Etsy is doing badly because its leadership still doesn't understand why people want to use Etsy. If you make Etsy into Amazon, I'll use Amazon, because they're

Etsy is doing badly because its leadership still doesn't understand why people want to use Etsy. If you make Etsy into Amazon, I'll use Amazon, because they're better. I used to use Etsy because it was everything Amazon wasn't: handmade, unique, and slow vs mass produced, generic, and fast. They turned it into a fraud-ridden garbage pile years ago. It's full of drop shippers and sellers who market "handmade" items from Alibaba and Amazon at huge markups. And of course full of extremely low effort junk items like places that "personalize" something for you and then claim it's handmade even though they bought it from Walmart. Always do a reverse image search. You'll save sometimes more than half the cost. I've reported countless listings that say they're handmade but are clearly on Alibaba. They're totally against the rules. Nothing ever happens. You can tell they know this is yet another shitty change because they blocked any community comments on it. We desperately need an alternative.