Short Video. Why is Etsy so bad now?

Another notch in the portfolio of "public companies" being made worse due to shareholder supremacy. Public companies aren't even really public anymore given the advent of a million tools to limit the role the public has in governance.

I wonder if it would be possible to develop a federated model for sales. You'd like still need a platform like shopify between the consumer and the manufacturer, but the point of Etsy wasn't just the commerce side, it was also the discoverability and searching side. I wonder if a federated approach to searching for products utilizing independent websites or marketplaces, but with a unified search and sales platform would even make sense as a means to offer a decentralized marketplace. On some level that'd be just a digital swap meet/flea market, but with less oversight and commerce protection of a centralized platform like Etsy or Ebay.