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  • Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.social
    Jul 29, 2026, 9:26 PM

    @gannet I've only bought patterns in stores and haven't looked at etsy at all ... Too much analysis paralysis with options. Is etsy doing anything to combat this scourge?

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  • Naomi Pgannet@sunny.garden
    Jul 29, 2026, 10:11 PM

    @fullywoolly

    I have no idea what they do in regard to slop, but my opinion of Etsy is pretty terrible at this point.

    I did just go look to see if I could find a current policy. My 2026 noai.DuckDuckGo results have a bunch of complaints by slop sellers complaining that their listings have been removed without warning or providing explanations of how to keep selling while adhering to Etsy policy.

    So I guess they’re doing something, though it sounds like a whack-a-mole problem.

    If you’ve been buying paper patterns from stores, it’s worth looking to see if the designers you like have their own websites. A lot of them sell patterns directly or will link to where they can be bought.

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  • Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.social
    Jul 29, 2026, 10:38 PM

    @gannet thanks. I definitely found some places where I like a lot of their patterns the way you suggested but haven't purchased any yet. As for etsy, I'll probably just continue to steer clear.

    Good luck out there and thanks again for the PSA

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  • Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.online
    Jul 31, 2026, 6:09 PM

    @fullywoolly Etsy takes everything for making profits, I closed my shop because of their behaviour. LLMs are only one part ... it starts with Chinese sweat shops "working by hand". You have to know/trust the owner of a shop there.

    @gannet

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  • Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.online
    Jul 31, 2026, 7:48 PM

    @fullywoolly Paper art. Artists had a group there to protest against "fake artists" (in reality Asian companies behind) selling bad quality for dumping prices, buying search results. There were different actions like cooperated shutdown of shops for several days with a protest banner. But Etsy had closed ears. At that time, many real artists left. Then they got more junk. The protests were in some media, perhaps you still find infos.

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  • Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.social
    Jul 31, 2026, 8:25 PM

    @NatureMC thanks I go searching. I have a commission of my dog's portrait that was made with pieces of cut paper some of it hand dyed from what the artist told me when I took delivery. Probably not your kind of paper art but I still find it amazing.

    A sketch of a black flat coat retriever with cut out zones that represent different shades of highlights that will be filled in with different color paper. It is partially filled with the nose, eyes, and some surrounding fur filled in. Mostly blacks and greys with a brown gradients in the eyes.
    A black flat coat retriever depicted with cut paper scraps, blacks, greys with a brown gradients in the eyes, and white highlights. On a slightly blue background. In a black frame.
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