WikiTok
Not sure if there's an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia...
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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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?
I'm still scrolling. Will it ever stop?????
help me.
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endless feed
to fight algorithm addiction
endless
feed
to fight algorithm addiction
Uuuuuh that's not the way to fight an addiction, right? Who is this person working for, exactly?
Think of it as a methadone clinic for doomscrollers.
If methadone was also educational 🌈⭐
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I don’t think there’s an algorithm involved actually. Just lovely facts.
Well, there has to be some kind of algorithm. Even picking a random Wikipedia article technically is an algorithm, just not one that adapts to the user
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"Some people just wanna watch the world learn."
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.
"I have had plenty of people message me and even make issues on my GitHub asking for some insane crazy WikiTok algorithm," Gemal told Ars. "And I had to put my foot down and say something along the lines that we're already ruled by ruthless, opaque algorithms in our everyday life; why can't we just have one little corner in the world without them?"
The developer seems staunchly anti-algorithm but I feel like some sort of filter system would work well. I know nothing about development but the same level of randomosity (it’s a word don’t look it up) but for specific topics would be amazing.
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Algorithms themselves are fine. It’s wikipedia. I’d actually use it if it brought me to interesting pages based on a recommender algorithm.
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Just found this article that for some reason has me dying of laughter: ICBM address
That's hilarious
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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.
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.
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 😅
Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?
I would disagree on the "slightly more informative" part. I have used it and in my opinion, it's "highly informative and educational".
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Everyday I read wikipedia and everyday, I learn something new. Fucking love this free resource
As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.
I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.
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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Useless knowledge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854
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Maybe, but you will win more pub quizzes and it's better than brainrot content
As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?
Knowledge is a good in and of itself
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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.
My God my general but shallow knowledge of many things will grow more powerful
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.
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This is awesome. :3
Wikipedia already has a "random article" function. I guess the tiktok ui is nice for some folks.
If someone made this for TV Tropes, I would never get anything productive done again
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 want this, but with high quality news sources. And then sort such that topics are distributed.
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