• RedFrank24@lemmy.world
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    Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?

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

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    Wikipedia already has a “random article” function. I guess the tiktok ui is nice for some folks.

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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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    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.

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      The addiction isn’t being defeated, it’s just being redirected from something worthless to something useful. Well, at least less useless.

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      Most “apps” are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone.

      I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn’t need to be.

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        If phone OSes made it so there’s less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.

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            They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can’t sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.

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          It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.

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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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            It’s very easy.

            Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.

            The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.

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          Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)

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          It’s just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.

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      On android:

      1. Open link in Firefox.
      2. Tap the three dots.
      3. Tap “add to start screen”

      There’s your app!

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        On iOS through Safari:
        Tap the Share icon
        Scroll down a little.
        Add to Home Screen.
        Profit?

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

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    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 …

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    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

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    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.

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    My God my general but shallow knowledge of many things will grow more powerful