Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️<p>I wrote a similar blog post a few years ago. It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one no longer fooled by <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Etsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etsy</span></a> hype. Etsy is not a site for handmade goods anymore. It's a site for mass-produced, mostly imported crap. It is designed to squeeze every penny it possibly can out of the people who sell there. You can better support <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artists</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/makers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>makers</span></a> by buying directly from them on their sites and not through Etsy.</p><p>Why I Don't Sell on Etsy - Dana's Art Corner <a href="https://danasartcorner.com/why-i-dont-sell-on-etsy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">danasartcorner.com/why-i-dont-</span><span class="invisible">sell-on-etsy/</span></a></p>