Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
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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
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Because Tiktok is so much better.
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Alternatively WikiToko would be cute
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Usless knowladge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854
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Useless? Knowledge for the sake of itself is worth pursuing.
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Knowledge is a good in and of itself
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True, but outside CS the word has come to refer to a certain brand of complex heuristics or ML inference.
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Is it though?
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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Depends on what you're into, what you do, etc... Could be the difference between winning Final Jeopardy and not. Or being able to identify Alessandro Gazzi by name in a police lineup, for example.
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Maybe, but you will win more pub quizzes and it's better than brainrot content
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I mean you can just swipe if it’s not your jam. I think this is a great idea.
