Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
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Everyday I read wikipedia and everyday, I learn something new. Fucking love this free resource
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...so.... content filters when? Let me limit it to certain subjects and I don't need social media anymore
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On iOS through Safari:
Tap the Share icon
Scroll down a little.
Add to Home Screen.
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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.
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The addiction isn't being defeated, it's just being redirected from something worthless to something useful. Well, at least less useless.
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And doomscrolling Wikipedia is still healthier than doomscrolling anything else.
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Honestly the fact that Lemmy doesn't have infinite scroll (on my UI, at least) has helped me a lot in terms of not wasting hours at a time on my phone
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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
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It's very easy.
Chrome let's you do "install" websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.
The annoying thing is that you can't save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.
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It was built with AI, so articles will scream about it being a triumph of whatever engine made it.
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Think of it as taking methadone instead of heroin.
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WikiTok > TikTok
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Well, there has to be some kind of algorithm. Even picking a random Wikipedia article technically is an algorithm, just not one that adapts to the user
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This is exactly what I needed
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Yep, you're 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app's sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.
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I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.
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I know it needs to maintain the Wiki name for branding purposes, but WikTok meshes better.
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As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?
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Still better than endless tiktiok scroll, me thinks
Due to shitty company pokicies where I worked, I once had a 6 month stint of reading Wikipedia 4-6 hours a day out of boredom and fuck yeah did I learn a lot of bew things. Sure, not everything sticks, but it's enough
