Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

This should be gamified. Use an LLM to generate a mini-quiz on the topic to make sure I read it. Give me points for acquiring new useless knowledge, and let me compete with my friends and family.

Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?

what is the likelihood of it having this or this(Go to Animals section)

This is exactly what I needed

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

I want this, but with high quality news sources. And then sort such that topics are distributed.

"Some people just wanna watch the world learn."

I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

WikiTok

Not sure if there's an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia...

WikiTok > TikTok

endless feed

to fight algorithm addiction

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to fight algorithm addiction

Uuuuuh that's not the way to fight an addiction, right? Who is this person working for, exactly?

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 😅

I too find this such a nice refreshing take on wikipedia. It’s only been a few days, hope the developer improves it further. I realize some kind of recommendation algorithm opens a pandora’s box, but one can dream

Would be cool if the official Wikipedia mobile app integrated this functionality! It does have a 'random articles' card, but it's nothing like this.

Not sure 'addiction' is being defeated here, though 😆 Like if I'm addicted to sausages, giving me bacon instead isn't really solving the root of the issue. The issue being those sexy, sexy pigs.

I've downloaded the app and left a five star rating. The app works great! Please show support to this developer ❤️

Saw this posted in a ADHD com a few days back. Every comment was just like "oh no...". I opened it and like 20 minutes later realized, oh no. I can and have spent many entire days just reading Wikipedia and following linked subjects. So much so I run out in areas. I can't handle a lot of visual and audio stimulation, short form content is such a nightmare for me, can't watch it. But give me pages of the most dense info and I'm hooked. I just need the option to download every paper referenced from every Wikipedia page I visit.

This is pretty awesome. I do see the need to be able to add categories of interest. Like follow history, the arts, etc. Cool regardless.

Just found this article that for some reason has me dying of laughter: ICBM address

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.

Web 1.0 cures web 2.0 again.

I'm imagining one of those that feeds you random tvtropes instead

As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.

This is awesome. :3

If someone made this for TV Tropes, I would never get anything productive done again

I can feel my butthole unclenching already 🥲

Sadly the design is pretty bad on desktop monitors.

Does it have an algorithm of some kind?

I usually hate them but for something safe like wikipedia i would love to have it tailored to my interests.

Having a real grand time adding a song from any musician I hit to a play list. I fucking love Awaz now.

I don't get it, it's pretty lame. Just a list of articles. This would need some kind of flow. Maybe one that is continued depending on what topic one reads. Something. I think, I'll try to make this ...

...so.... content filters when? Let me limit it to certain subjects and I don't need social media anymore 😂