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Sadly, as usual with Europe, a really good idea and... a very poor marketing! Mastodon is supposed to be a kind of Twitter replacement... so why not using the

Sadly, as usual with Europe, a really good idea and... a very poor marketing! Mastodon is supposed to be a kind of Twitter replacement... so why not using the "public timeline" (https://social.network.europa.eu/public https://social.network.europa.eu/public) as the landing page??? It would allow everybody to see that mastodon is not more complicated than twitter and would be more interesting than https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more https://social.network.europa.eu/about/more or even https://social.network.europa.eu https://social.network.europa.eu !!! I really don't get it. :-( As long as Europa won't be able to make interesting things catchy for everybody, all these good ideas will just stay unused and lost

olivierduval 4y ago
Funnily... the "infinite timeline" prevents the user to see the footer with global links and explanations Sad to see this all messed up :-(
miohtama 4y ago
Because the EU officials and subcontracted party do not have incentive make the product attractive. - There is no monetary incentive for developers based on the success of the product. Close proximity with the EU is enough to win the likely overpriced government contract, which is either a fixed price or by-the-hour. - The EU officials themselves rarely have ambitions or talent to make any good web services. Your success as a government officer does not depend on the success of a software product, but is based on political alignments and taking least risk of not screwing up.
- lock-the-spock 4y ago
  You speak of preconceptions rather than fact.
- decide1000 4y ago
  I am not sure if I can agree with that. The EU has several apps and API which are stable and useful. Do you have an example of such low quality webservice?
jszymborski 4y ago
In fairness, almost all the instances I know don't show their timeline on their landing page.
lock-the-spock 4y ago
This is just a service info page describing the service, not an advertisement.
Proven 4y ago
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byyll 4y ago
Europe != EU, they are not interchangeable.

olivierduval 4y ago

Funnily... the "infinite timeline" prevents the user to see the footer with global links and explanations Sad to see this all messed up :-(

miohtama 4y ago

Because the EU officials and subcontracted party do not have incentive make the product attractive. - There is no monetary incentive for developers based on the success of the product. Close proximity with the EU is enough to win the likely overpriced government contract, which is either a fixed price or by-the-hour. - The EU officials themselves rarely have ambitions or talent to make any good web services. Your success as a government officer does not depend on the success of a software product, but is based on political alignments and taking least risk of not screwing up.

lock-the-spock 4y ago
You speak of preconceptions rather than fact.
decide1000 4y ago
I am not sure if I can agree with that. The EU has several apps and API which are stable and useful. Do you have an example of such low quality webservice?

jszymborski 4y ago

In fairness, almost all the instances I know don't show their timeline on their landing page.

lock-the-spock 4y ago

This is just a service info page describing the service, not an advertisement.

Proven 4y ago

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byyll 4y ago

Europe != EU, they are not interchangeable.