VA-11 Hall-A Bar
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Amon to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

arstechnica.com

external-link
message-square
117
853
external-link

Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

arstechnica.com

Amon to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago
message-square
117
WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
  • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    23•5 months ago

    I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.

    • Anti-Face Weapon
      link
      fedilink
      English
      32•
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      Useless? Knowledge for its own sake is worth pursuing.

      • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        4•5 months ago

        Is it though?

        • ivanafterall ☑️
          link
          fedilink
          English
          10•
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          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.

          • @sfxrlz@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11•5 months ago

            I mean you can just swipe if it’s not your jam. I think this is a great idea.

            • @___@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              1•5 months ago

              deleted by creator

      • @the_doktor@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3•5 months ago

        There is no knowledge that is not power.

    • Phoenixz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      16•5 months ago

      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

      • @CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1•
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        deleted by creator

    • @ludrol@bookwormstory.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      15•
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      Useless knowledge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        2•5 months ago

        Information > misinformation

    • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      13•5 months ago

      Maybe, but you will win more pub quizzes and it’s better than brainrot content

    • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      12•5 months ago

      As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?

    • @AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      11•5 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • @Darkhoof@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      6•5 months ago

      Because Tiktok is so much better.

Technology@lemmy.world

!technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
  • 3.33K users / day
  • 8.06K users / week
  • 16.9K users / month
  • 33.9K users / 6 months
  • 72.5K subscribers
  • 15.3K Posts
  • 578K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @L3s@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot
  • enu
  • Technopagan
  • L3s
  • @L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.1
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org