There was just a nice, in-depth discussion here on Mastodon on the new Intel CPU extensions and how they compare to ARM earlier today. The technical audience is most definitely around.
@reduz I am :)
The tech audience will come if we lead the way. There's already a bunch of the rendering tech sphere here who discuss stuff.
@reduz technical discussions on what? :P
I am personally mostly here for the ideological discussions, but then again, I'm also enjoying technical stuff.
But the first thing about the #Fediverse is, that you have to put in effort first for people to find you: join conversations others start, and use hashtags to draw in a relevant audience.
It will be good once you get the hang of it.
@reduz Alas “technical” covers cosmic areas, but I miss the usenet communities of yore, like comp.arch and comp.arch.fpga.
Always ready to discuss anything related to #microprocessorarchitecture, #microprocessorimplementation, #digitallogic, and especially “paths not followed”, like #asynclogic, #blockstructureISAs, etc
@reduz I barely opened Twitter for the past few months, but I've been very active here and IMO after 13 years on Twitter, is that discussions here can be much more technical and deeper than Twitter.
Twitter also attracts a lot of noise and random replies, here, the answers are normally very relevant to the discussion.
And there's more technical discussions here than Twtr: (1) no algorithm, no need to write bland/clickbait threads to engage (2) longer posts (3) edit possibility