Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
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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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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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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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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.
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I'm imagining one of those that feeds you random TVTropes instead
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Yes but the common interpretation of “the algorithm” is that of the social media and YouTube style one. Recommending items of interest etc but easily manipulated by bad actors.
Wiki random is about as opposite to that as possible.
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One big thing i hope they add is sorting by topic, so i can have a biology feed, a physics feed...
