…so… content filters when? Let me limit it to certain subjects and I don’t need social media anymore 😂
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…
they have this already, at least on the app version
Having a real grand time adding a song from any musician I hit to a play list. I fucking love Awaz now.
WikiTok
Not sure if there’s an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia…
Seems to work fine as a PWA-esque shortcut on iOS for the time being
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?
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.
It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.
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.
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.
Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)
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
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.
It’s just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.
At least on android I was able to just add a link to the home screen in Firefox.
I’m still scrolling. Will it ever stop???
help me.
Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?
Apparently it doesn’t use a personalised algorithm. So I’d say the first one.
I would disagree on the “slightly more informative” part. I have used it and in my opinion, it’s “highly informative and educational”.
It’s like what vaping is to nicotine addiction.
Better than the alternative, buttt
Butt nicotine? What kind of weird stuff you into?
I think it’s more “Butt as an alternative to algorithms” which I fully agree with. Butts are better than algorithms
Depends on the butt, I’ve seen some nice algorithms.
Blowimg smoke up people’s asses, duh! /s
Sadly the design is pretty bad on desktop monitors.
WikiTok > TikTok
I know it needs to maintain the Wiki name for branding purposes, but WikTok meshes better.
Alternatively WikiToko would be cute
WikiTiki ?
As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.
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 can feel my butthole unclenching already 🥲
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.
Just found this article that for some reason has me dying of laughter: ICBM address
I love this. ICBM address is a very clever joke.
That’s hilarious
If you enjoy this, have a peek at The Jargon File. Classic hacker slang is something else.
Thank you for this. Very interesting read about hacker speak.
This is awesome. :3
I’ve downloaded the app and left a five star rating. The app works great! Please show support to this developer ❤️
What app? Isnt just browser bsed?
It’s app based. I found it on Google Play.
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.
Wikipedia already has a “random article” function. I guess the tiktok ui is nice for some folks.
