I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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Knowledge is a good in and of itself
Useless knowledge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854
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Because Tiktok is so much better.
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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As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?
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WikiTok > TikTok
I know it needs to maintain the Wiki name for branding purposes, but WikTok meshes better.
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 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.
...so.... content filters when? Let me limit it to certain subjects and I don't need social media anymore 😂
Everyday I read wikipedia and everyday, I learn something new. Fucking love this free resource
"Some people just wanna watch the world learn."
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.
This is awesome. :3
Just got the app it's absolutely fantastic.
If someone made this for TV Tropes, I would never get anything productive done again
Having a real grand time adding a song from any musician I hit to a play list. I fucking love Awaz now.
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.
I can feel my butthole unclenching already 🥲
Sadly the design is pretty bad on desktop monitors.