I've been using fiverr on and off for the better part of the last 15 years. I go through long stretches sometimes where I don't really post much and don't need anything, but then other times where I post gigs. The way fiverr used to work, that I remember, was as soon as I post a gig, I get 100s of people, pretty much anyone that was interested that would send a message with a bid offer. To me, this was a proper free market and how it should be. If I wanted to pay more for higher quality or someone with better reviews, then I could, if I wanted to just pay the absolute minimum then I could just select the lowest offer.
Recently though I posted a gig that only got about 7 applicants, which is completely different than the fiverr I remember. I'm not that invested into fiver, so I'm probably out of the loop, but it was so bad/different that I took to google to find out what's going on and stumbled on this forum. I glanced at a few threads and saw that fiverr has had a mass exodus of buyers from the platform... and from what I've seen on my last gig I can probably guess it's associated. Has politics, governance, and idealist views basically come through like a wrecking ball and destroyed the free market that once was here? Which platform now exists in the same manner that fiverr used to? I want to be able to post a job and have a free market exchange of bids with potential sellers.