I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.
Useless? Knowledge for the sake of itself is worth pursuing.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Is it though?
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.
I mean you can just swipe if it’s not your jam. I think this is a great idea.
Knowledge is a good in and of itself
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?
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
Usless knowladge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854
Information > misinformation
Because Tiktok is so much better.
As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.
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.
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?
I don’t think there’s an algorithm involved actually. Just lovely facts.
Think of it as taking methadone instead of heroin.
Think of it as a methadone clinic for doomscrollers.
If methadone was also educational 🌈⭐
I may have a problem
We’re here to help! We just need someone to implement doomscroll / infiniscroll into Lemmy, lol.
I’ve got news for you: basically every app I’ve used so far for lemmy has infinite scroll. Currently Thunder previously Sync.
Honestly the fact that Lemmy doesn’t have infinite scroll (on my UI, at least) has helped me a lot in terms of not wasting hours at a time on my phone
More like a brothel for sex addicts.
Jesus. Enough hyperbolic nonsense. Browsing Wikipedia is way healthier than doom scrolling.
And doomscrolling Wikipedia is still healthier than doomscrolling anything else.
Sadly the design is pretty bad on desktop monitors.
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 🥲
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.
I like this idea.
I don’t know if I will do anything with it, but I would like to create something like this. Find it hard to develop when I’m not in work, as it feels like work.
You are a Sadist Lmfao
This is awesome. :3
Web 1.0 cures web 2.0 again.
Just got the app it’s absolutely fantastic.
I want this, but with high quality news sources. And then sort such that topics are distributed.
