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> other online platforms, including Etsy. For the past decade Etsy has been a rebranded Temu/Ali Express. There's almost nothing local, or original, or worth a
by troupo 2mo ago
> other online platforms, including Etsy.
For the past decade Etsy has been a rebranded Temu/Ali Express. There's almost nothing local, or original, or worth anything on it.
All large online shopping services converge onto the same Amazon model.
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoThere are people who rent time at my local makerspace who sell on Etsy. Maybe the issue is that Etsy doesn't make it easy to find them?
- troupo 2mo agoThis, too. Amazonification/Enshittification
- swatcoder 2mo agoEtsy still welcomes small craft artists and makers and provides a convenient e-commerce portal for them, but yes, it's the discovery that's been ruined. They originally broke through and defined themselves by insisting that vendors only sell original cottage-crafted work, but gave up on that requirement years ago and the sincere low-volume, low-margin crafters can't compete with high-volume, high-margin importers in either advertising spend or in the etsy-profiting metrics that drive algorithmic discovery.
- senderista 2mo agoIt's a lot like Google search: the good websites are still there but now it's impossible to find them.
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoEtsy in particular has an incentive to fix this in ways that Google would never
- groundzeros2015 2mo agoNo they don’t. Because the small sellers don’t make much money.
- pixl97 2mo agoAnother thing that happens is your local shop will set up one Etsy store, the el cheapo junk stores may set up a huge number of different shops selling the same set of products.