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There 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?
by mohamedkoubaa 2mo ago
There 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.