It will all be people you already swiped left on or don’t pass your filters.

TIL. I’ve been making the same mistake and had to look it up as a result of this comment.

The most sticky subreddits have been ones that are niche and not tech-related. The most likely users to make their way over to Lemmy have been technically inclined ones who were using third-party apps.

If you use protobuf/gRPC anywhere in your application, text format protobuf. Writes like JSON, but with a clear schema, a parser that already exists in most languages, and has comments.