WikiTok
Not sure if there's an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia...
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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Most "apps" are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone.
I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn't need to be.
If phone OSes made it so there's less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.
I think that's only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page
They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can't sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.
Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)
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On android:
- Open link in Firefox.
- Tap the three dots.
- Tap "add to start screen"
There's your app!
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I'm still scrolling. Will it ever stop?????
help me.
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"Some people just wanna watch the world learn."
endless feed
to fight algorithm addiction
endless
feed
to fight algorithm addiction
Uuuuuh that's not the way to fight an addiction, right? Who is this person working for, exactly?
Think of it as a methadone clinic for doomscrollers.
If methadone was also educational 🌈⭐
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I don’t think there’s an algorithm involved actually. Just lovely facts.
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This is pretty awesome. I do see the need to be able to add categories of interest. Like follow history, the arts, etc. Cool regardless.
"I have had plenty of people message me and even make issues on my GitHub asking for some insane crazy WikiTok algorithm," Gemal told Ars. "And I had to put my foot down and say something along the lines that we're already ruled by ruthless, opaque algorithms in our everyday life; why can't we just have one little corner in the world without them?"
The developer seems staunchly anti-algorithm but I feel like some sort of filter system would work well. I know nothing about development but the same level of randomosity (it’s a word don’t look it up) but for specific topics would be amazing.
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Algorithms themselves are fine. It’s wikipedia. I’d actually use it if it brought me to interesting pages based on a recommender algorithm.
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Just found this article that for some reason has me dying of laughter: ICBM address
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Would be cool if the official Wikipedia mobile app integrated this functionality! It does have a 'random articles' card, but it's nothing like this.
Not sure 'addiction' is being defeated here, though 😆 Like if I'm addicted to sausages, giving me bacon instead isn't really solving the root of the issue. The issue being those sexy, sexy pigs.
The addiction isn't being defeated, it's just being redirected from something worthless to something useful. Well, at least less useless.
Saw this posted in a ADHD com a few days back. Every comment was just like "oh no...". I opened it and like 20 minutes later realized, oh no. I can and have spent many entire days just reading Wikipedia and following linked subjects. So much so I run out in areas. I can't handle a lot of visual and audio stimulation, short form content is such a nightmare for me, can't watch it. But give me pages of the most dense info and I'm hooked. I just need the option to download every paper referenced from every Wikipedia page I visit.
Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?
I would disagree on the "slightly more informative" part. I have used it and in my opinion, it's "highly informative and educational".
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That's actually really cool. I like that the dev has expressed that he doesn't want to make the algorithm addictive and just keep it random 😅
Web 1.0 cures web 2.0 again.
As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.
Everyday I read wikipedia and everyday, I learn something new. Fucking love this free resource
I see the dev don't want recommendation algorithm. All good to avoid the recommendation bubble, but a category/tags might be nice instead of random everything.
My God my general but shallow knowledge of many things will grow more powerful
This should be gamified. Use an LLM to generate a mini-quiz on the topic to make sure I read it. Give me points for acquiring new useless knowledge, and let me compete with my friends and family.
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This is awesome. :3
Wikipedia already has a "random article" function. I guess the tiktok ui is nice for some folks.
I want this, but with high quality news sources. And then sort such that topics are distributed.
I too find this such a nice refreshing take on wikipedia. It’s only been a few days, hope the developer improves it further. I realize some kind of recommendation algorithm opens a pandora’s box, but one can dream
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