• 58008@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    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.

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    27 days ago

    Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?

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    28 days ago

    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.

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    28 days ago

    As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.

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    27 days ago

    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

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      27 days ago

      One big thing i hope they add is sorting by topic, so i can have a biology feed, a physics feed…

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    27 days ago

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

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    28 days ago

    …so… content filters when? Let me limit it to certain subjects and I don’t need social media anymore 😂

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    28 days ago

    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 …