Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 day ago“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.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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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.
Graphy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah this is just the wiki random button with a simplified TikTok gui.
Pretty much a useless site which is a shame since I was excited about it.
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
I have a habit of grabbing my phone and scrolling shorts if im just going to be free for less than 10mins because I don’t have time to watch something longer or read a chapter of a book. If there was an app like this that actually had an algorithm so I could instead scroll wikipedia and learn something interesting I think that it would at least help scratch the itch and not make short form video content my go to.