Max Lindmark 🍉Feb 2
Rebane
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
https://xikipedia.org/
Feb 1 at 11:42pmWeb
Show threadlua 💫Feb 1
@rebane2001 oh this is Awesome
Show threadBookFeb 2
@lua @rebane2001 This. I love it.
Show threadc.reider Feb 2
@rebane2001 oh, like wikitok? i should give this a try
Show threadc.reider Feb 2
@rebane2001 definitely prefer your version, nice job
Show threadSandFeb 2
@rebane2001 i tried subscribing to only "Technology" and "Science", and this is what I got. It doesn't do the best job of keeping to the requested subjects. "NFT" and "Technology" were funny coincidences. It often has places and people who aren't relevant to technology/science. Unless you can call politics and art sciences.
Show threadRebaneFeb 2

@sand the topics you pick nudge the algorithm, but don't define it, so you still get pretty much everything

NFTs *are* technology, even if not a good one - this is an encyclopedia, so the connection makes sense

Show threadJon HenshawFeb 2

@rebane2001

This is pretty great. The download is slow. I hope you can find a better and faster CDN to serve the file from, because I think a lot of people are going to visit this. 😃

Show threadRebaneFeb 2

@jon the speed is fine most of the time, it's just that it's currently getting multiple 40MB requests per second, maxing out the gigabit connection

it'll probably load just fine if you try it in a day or two

Show threadQuinn ComendantFeb 2
@rebane2001 @jon Yeah it was recently posted to Hacker News, so almost unusable at the moment.
Show threadRebaneFeb 2
@com @jon it is not hacker news, it's this: https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/115999116111552319
Show threadQuinn ComendantFeb 2
@rebane2001 @jon loooool
Show threadAzarilhⓥFeb 2
@rebane2001 Pure evil, will spread it.
Show threadThe Trout 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 2
@rebane2001 you're actually on to something. Now you need to add "trending", "new" and "recently updated".
Show threadv4rd4453nFeb 2
@rebane2001 sort of meme on reading articles via the doomscroll, and also sort of homage to the now dead user feedback rating of wikipedia articles...
Show threadKaptn KousKousFeb 2
@rebane2001 very cool. Very interesting. Is there an app version. Or how would you recommend someone use it for long term use? (Persistent on close)
Show threadRadishTMFeb 2
@rebane2001 Awesome! Also like that the most excellent “Foregone Destruction” music track from UT was used in the preview video 👌🏼
Show threadfamubuFeb 2

@RadishTM @rebane2001

Thanks, I wanted to know the song as well.

Show threadRadishTMFeb 2
@famubu You’re welcome, it’s a banger track 👍🏼
Show threadJohan NguyenFeb 2
@rebane2001 awesome, you should create an app for this 👍
Show threadChristian SurreyFeb 2
@rebane2001 OMG! It serves needs I never thought of! Great Idea!
Show threadECHAEAFeb 2
@rebane2001
Amazing !! Will you make a multilingual version ?
Show threadr҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖Feb 2
@rebane2001 Welp! RIP to the rest of my day cause I'm gonna settle in with coffee for this one
Show threadjan Ki | 奇  Feb 2
@rebane2001
this is amazing! could you please add alt text, so that I can boost it?
Show threadRebaneFeb 2
@ki could you give an example of what the alt text should be? i find myself a bit stumped writing alt text for videos like this
Show threadjan Ki | 奇  Feb 2

@rebane2001
Something like this maybe?

> A video of a hand holding a phone in front of a black background. The phone's display shows a list of texts similar to a social media timeline. Some texts have images. Each post has an outlined heart icon in its lower left-hand corner. The hand is scrolling rapidly through this feed and pressing the heart icon for a couple of texts. The heart icons turn red when clicked. Each text is an excerpt from Wikipedia.

Show threadBart Veldhuizen 🚀Feb 2
@rebane2001 I would love to try it, but it crashes Safari on my iPhone 12
Show threadFanghFeb 2
@rebane2001 thank you for UT99 music
Show threadAman VerasiaFeb 2
@rebane2001 This is amazing. Going to give this a try.
Show threadBastian SenstFeb 2
@rebane2001 Great. Could you make a language selection so that I can doomscroll the german Wikipedia?
Show threadPierrecFeb 2
@rebane2001 I would actually love this as an app on my phone with the data saved
Show threadPanchoFeb 2
@Pierrec @rebane2001 yes please! :)
Show threadTimothy WolodzkoFeb 2

@rebane2001 I like this small bug that makes the Wiki pronunciation not displayed, so it makes it something like an infinite C for-loop:

Cajamarca ( ; ; ) { ... }

Show threadRebaneFeb 2
@tymwol ;_;
Show threadtalebFeb 2

@rebane2001 Huh, well I guess even gathering infos from the wiki is now succumb to the action of doomscrolling too...what's next? Dictionary? IMDB description of movies? Summarised article reports? So many to think that's mindbogglingly cynical

(this'll change the way of gathering sources for better or for worse - personally leaning to worse )

Show threadVirtualized NightmareFeb 2
@taleb @rebane2001 tvtropes is right there
Show threadtalebFeb 3
@skye that actually didn’t came to my mind since I didn’t use that web, beside wikis I was thinking of summary of journals or articles reports that just have outland main points and a title to fit in the algorithm criteria, fitting for doomscrolling
Show threadDJGummikuhFeb 2
@rebane2001 is this deus ex soundtrack? I don't remember that specific track but it sounds SO MUCH like deus ex xD
Show threadBuiFeb 2
@rebane2001 what’s the music in this? 👀
Show threadIlusënnFeb 2
@temptoetiam Je sais pas si c'est une bonne idée que tu voies ça 👆, mais tant pis hein
Show threadAbieFeb 2
@ilusenn hahaha, merci !
Show threadMiStFeb 2
@rebane2001 oh god, no! I'm already loosing way too much time on wikipedia klicking through the links ...
this is no gonna help that!
Show threadLinneaFeb 2
@rebane2001 (3**(post.seen??0)-1)*-50000; this alone is so good lmao, cant express how much i hate having the exact same post show up on my twitter feed every half a minute
Show threadLinneaFeb 2
@rebane2001 also, this needs a like export function. for now i will just use Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.post:has(button[data-liked]) h1')).map(it=>it.textContent) so i didnt "waste" the last half an hour
Show threadWikipediaFeb 2
@rebane2001 oh no.. 🥴
Show threadIndustriebotanikerFeb 3
@wikipedia
@rebane2001
This should be included in your app, Wikimedia team!
Show threadslurhurlingsflasher (never (intentionally) mean ) the thirdFeb 2
so does this melt my brain or regenerate it
Show threadianFeb 2
@rebane2001 the zeitgeist has you https://wikitok.vercel.app/
WikiTok

Show threadDulce Maria (she/her)Feb 2
@rebane2001 as a pre-internet child who used to peruse the encyclopedia for fun, this is most excellent. Thank you!!!!
Show thread🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️   θΔ ⋐ & ∞Feb 2
@rebane2001 >implies you can't already doomscroll wikipedia
Show threadPaulFeb 2
@rebane2001 This is incredible, I already know I'm going to love it
Show threadVirtualized NightmareFeb 2
@rebane2001 so many frogs
Show threadLegion495Feb 2
@rebane2001 And one might gain actual knowledge!
Show threadAzurik: Rise of Perathia updatesFeb 2
@rebane2001 Lol half is communes in France and the other half are WW2 related . I think that's a Wikipedia problem. Either way great job!
Show threadAvery (She/Her)Feb 2
@rebane2001 awesome! i used it exclusively to like pictures of home appliences.
Show threadPeter Jakobs ⛵Feb 2
@rebane2001 this is brilliant!
Show threadjnkrtechFeb 2
@rebane2001 tbh this might actually be good for me compared to habitually refreshing reddit 😂
Show threadQanno - Feb 2
@rebane2001 My hero.
Show threadMichałFeb 2
@rebane2001 Manchmal sollte man sich anstatt "Kann ich sowas bauen" eher fragen "sollte ich überhaupt so etwas bauen"
😅
Show threadJohn KaniarzFeb 2

@rebane2001 It seems to get myopic fairly quickly. I liked a couple video games and pretty soon my feed was mostly video games. So, through numbers alone it surfaced another game I liked and got even more focused.

Overall, I was liking more non-games than games, but it wasn’t learning that I liked other stuff. The small number of game likes were focused, but the non-game likes in the majority were diffuse.

Show thread🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️   θΔ ⋐ & ∞Feb 2
@rebane2001 waow unreal tournament mentioned