This is awesome. :3
Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?
It’s like what vaping is to nicotine addiction.
Better than the alternative, buttt
Butt nicotine? What kind of weird stuff you into?
I would disagree on the “slightly more informative” part. I have used it and in my opinion, it’s “highly informative and educational”.
…so… content filters when? Let me limit it to certain subjects and I don’t need social media anymore 😂
Just found this article that for some reason has me dying of laughter: ICBM address
That’s hilarious
If you enjoy this, have a peek at The Jargon File. Classic hacker slang is something else.
Wikipedia already has a “random article” function. I guess the tiktok ui is nice for some folks.
I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.
Because Tiktok is so much better.
Usless knowladge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854
Information > misinformation
Useless? Knowledge for the sake of itself is worth pursuing.
Is it though?
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.
I mean you can just swipe if it’s not your jam. I think this is a great idea.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
Maybe, but you will win more pub quizzes and it’s better than brainrot content
Knowledge is a good in and of itself
As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?
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
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.
The addiction isn’t being defeated, it’s just being redirected from something worthless to something useful. Well, at least less useless.
WikiTok
Not sure if there’s an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia…
I’m still scrolling. Will it ever stop???
help me.
Seems to work fine as a PWA-esque shortcut on iOS for the time being
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.
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.
I think that’s only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page
It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.
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.
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.
Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)
It’s just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.
On android:
- Open link in Firefox.
- Tap the three dots.
- Tap “add to start screen”
There’s your app!
On iOS through Safari:
Tap the Share icon
Scroll down a little.
Add to Home Screen.
Profit?
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 …
also needs a way to integrate ads too, oh and dont forget, AI AI AI AI AI
It was built with AI, so articles will scream about it being a triumph of whatever engine made it.
Sadly the design is pretty bad on desktop monitors.
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
One big thing i hope they add is sorting by topic, so i can have a biology feed, a physics feed…
I’ve downloaded the app and left a five star rating. The app works great! Please show support to this developer ❤️
I just installed it and was immediately annoyed by the auto-scrolling feature being turned on by default. Is that really how TikTok works? How does anyone put up with this shit?
Not sure but i support them for trying. Maybe leave a review and ask the dev to change it.
It’s not. You have to enable autoscrolling on TikTok.
What app? Isnt just browser bsed?
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.
My God my general but shallow knowledge of many things will grow more powerful
