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I enjoyed that. I could go to the Wikipedia front page and click a random article, but (for me) flicking quickly between some topics until being interested in an ancient Mayan aristocrat and reading about her, is a content delivery service that works for me.
I get why folks might hate it, or not need it, but I often look to my phone as a randomising information delivery system. I can always look into stuff I'm interested in, but I need the chance of being introduced to topics that would never occur to me. Journalism and social media can provide a route to that, but there's something to be said for scrolling through topics until I find something that intrigues me, instead of preferencing whatever promotes engagement on Lemmy (or wherever).
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I'm a person that saw this and thought "YES!".
It's a way to make my mindless scrolling a little bit less mindless. It's not a Wikipedia alternative it's a tiktok alternative (I don't use tiktok, but I understand why people do, my attention span is also shattered). Obviously it's not going to replace looking things up on Wikipedia, and I love exploring links in Wikipedia articles, but you don't know what you don't know so this seems like a good way to learn about things you didn't know you were interested in.
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nice app
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It's an interesting idea. Could be a way to catch interest and education.
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P projectmoon moved this topic from Android on
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I have fdroid and it tells me the link is broken. Maybe it's a repo I don't have
Me too. It says "app not found". I can't find it either if I search directly into F-Droid.
By the way, I've enabled all anti-features.
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Already finding this nicer then TikTok.
And my partner also likes it!
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Me too. It says "app not found". I can't find it either if I search directly into F-Droid.
By the way, I've enabled all anti-features.
I fixed it by enabling the setting to show apps not compatible with my device
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Wow this is neat! It's making Wikipedia more engaging, something I could actually read more regularly.
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Thanks... I think
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Link seems broken
This is a new app. You need to manually force a refresh of the fdroid repo by pulling to refresh.
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Bruh I think f-droid is deluded sometimes, like what do they want
I guess being able to connect to any Wikimedia site sounds like a nice feature, but I wouldn't call that an "anti-feature".
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I mean there's not too many other ways you could make a scrolling Wikipedia feed and it all sounds terrible. Wikipedia is at its best when feeding a rabbit hole via nested links to the concepts that underlie what you are already learning about.
This person is probably trying to build a portfolio of applications they can say they've made so they can get a job doing something useful. Smashing a new ui on old info is a relatively brainless way to do that, and doesn't require much critical thought.
While @[email protected] called it algotrash, a system that curates would be better than a random feed.
I.E. asks for interests up front, then tailor as you read.
