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WikWok | WikWok transforms your Wikipedia reading experience into an engaging, scroll-based article feed [TikTok like].

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  • mubelotix@jlai.luM [email protected]

    I have fdroid and it tells me the link is broken. Maybe it's a repo I don't have

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    Works for me too. I think it's your config that's broken (or something is messing with your connection).

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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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            • mubelotix@jlai.luM [email protected]

              I have fdroid and it tells me the link is broken. Maybe it's a repo I don't have

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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.

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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.

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                  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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                      I've seen this idea before

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                      Thanks... I think

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                      • mubelotix@jlai.luM [email protected]

                        Link seems broken

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                        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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