Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional company
Bizarre. I&#x27;ve only tried to use Etsy once, figuring it&#x27;d be a great place to get some sort of unique jewellery as a gift. It&#x27;s filled with junk, both of the super-manufactured kind and of the &quot;modern art&quot; kind (someone glues 2 pieces of crap together and wants $500.) I haven&#x27;t gone back, though I did enjoy the Regretsy blog while it was up.<p>&gt;Etsy’s insistence on running its own servers rather than using cloud-based services and software offered by companies such as Google and Amazon—an emphasis that was known, under Dickerson, as “code as craft”<p>That reminds me of the silly StackOverflow &quot;if you are a real &lt;hacker&#x2F;programmer&#x2F;developer&#x2F;whatever&gt; you must setup your own servers&quot;. There are certain benefits of cloud or not, but this kind of thinking confuses me. Why stop there? Do they build their own Ethernet cables? Racks? Make their own distros, compilers, etc.? Build their own network -- after all, your network is critical in delivering pages to your users, why outsource this to XO and Cogent and so on?<p>Edit: Yes, I understand the pricing differences of cloud. So just say &quot;it&#x27;s cheaper to run our own stuff&quot;, don&#x27;t pretend its due to some desire for &quot;craft&quot;.<p>&gt;food scraps were packed onto a Dutch cargo bike, which an “office ecologist” would pedal several miles to a Brooklyn farm<p>It&#x27;s like they want to parody themselves?<p>&gt;Senior Engineer...&quot;I’m just allergic to capitalism&quot;<p>But presumably not allergic to using capitalists money to hire people to bike your leftovers around town.