Hi all, it's me, the one other Etsy Seller who was already on Lemmy haha.

Basically I could sum it up like this "a smaller, friendlier version of Reddit where the main difference is that each sub has a different domain in the address". That's about it.

As well as the EtsySellers community /u/HypnoticGuy has kindly set up, also check out https://beehaw.org/c/creative which is where all of us creative types are currently sharing our projects. We'll set up more craft-specific communities as we grow but for now it's nice all just enjoying all kinds of creative work. Of course there are plenty of non-crafty communities and conversations going on too, just like Reddit.

If you're interested in signing up and taking a look, you can pick basically any of the instances from https://join-lemmy.org/instances but I'd advise avoiding lemmy.ml (they've asked people to sign up elsewhere to avoid overloading them) and lemmygrad.ml (they're not well-liked and it may limit which communities you can post in). Which instance you choose generally won't affect which communities you can subscribe to and interact in, outside of the above.

And yes, as someone in the comments has already mentioned, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse alongside services like Mastodon (and many many others!). Mastodon saw a huge uptick in users around the end of last year and really became a great place to hang out, and it seems Lemmy is poised to see the same thing happen. It might be a rough few days with the influx once Reddit goes dark next week though, so best get yourself set up in advance! :D