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Xikipedia reimagines wikipedia as a social media feed without the social media

Summary by Boing Boing
Xikipedia reimagines Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed—without the social media downsides. The site links to actual Wikipedia articles but displays them as short descriptions you can browse endlessly. Unlike social media scrolling, this feels healthy. "Doomscroll" usually sounds negative, but it feels fully positive here. — Read the rest The post Xikipedia reimagines wikipedia as a social media feed without the social media appeare…
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The recommendation algorithms, you know well I think... YouTube, TikTok, Instagram... these things that keep you taped on the screen for hours by sucking all your data through. Well, a dev of good taste decided to prove that you could do the same thing without machine learning and without collecting any personal info. His secret weapon? The 270,000 articles from Simple Wikipedia. Xikipedia, it's a pseudo social network that balances you with sim…

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