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I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
I've been waiting for someone to implement this well! I think in the future we might even have tiktok-style influencer videos generated from wikipedia content, who knows. I've been swiping a lot for the last 10 minutes and I'm not sure how much it's learning. I have some feedback. - I have never liked or clicked a biography but it keeps suggesting vast amounts of those - It does not seem to update the score based on…
It's opensource insofar that the javascript is not minified or obfuscated. You can see it at https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia too.
- https://wikispeedruns.com/ - https://sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ - https://www.wikitok.io/
Would be cool / horrific to do this, but then have AI influencer bots that teach you the things in influencer style click bait style videos.
I've been waiting for someone to implement this well! I think in the future we might even have tiktok-style influencer videos generated from wikipedia content, who knows. I've been swiping a lot for the last 10 minutes and I'm not sure how much it's learning. I have some feedback. - I have never liked or clicked a biography but it keeps suggesting vast amounts of those - It does not seem to update the score based on…
It's opensource insofar that the javascript is not minified or obfuscated. You can see it at https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia too.
> you will likely see NSFW content. Please only continue if you're an adult. Should be: Please only continue if you're not at work.
I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1]. These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are. [0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099 [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107…
I think it's "this one is good but if I swipe the next one can be even better", i.e. classic dopamine addiction. Stop digging!
I don't get it. It shows the intro paragraph of some articles in card list and that's it? Clicking the card takes you away from the feed, instead of creating e.g. some kind of a path of interest.
> instead of creating e.g. some kind of a path of interest. You need to like them to update the weights of the algo, it works well
I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1]. These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are. [0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099 [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107…
I think it's "this one is good but if I swipe the next one can be even better", i.e. classic dopamine addiction. Stop digging!
Then you go about your regular day and suddenly everything feels harder in comparison. You have to think about what youre doing, you have to coordinate or plan your actions, you have to put work in. The swiping rots your ability to maintain and coordinate your chain of actions.
it weakens your ability to have intent.
Short form content feeds are like unloading a dumptruck full of random items into your driveway. Is it actually better if all that stuff you didnt ask for is real information that needs to be organized and pieced together with what you already know without any of the associated context that helps you do that? Or is it better if you know 99% of it is trash and you dont need to remember any of it?
I think a tool like this is great for people who want to use short form content intentionally, and personally that only happens when I am bored and in need of a new topic to research. I think of all short form content like marketing/ads, just showcasing something i might be interested to dig into on my own. It's how i used StumbleUpon website back in the day.
But I have noticed I am rarely using short form content with intention. its because i want to check what my friends have posted, and then with the extra downtime i scroll a little bit, and sometimes get stuck