...but why

Bruh I think f-droid is deluded sometimes, like what do they want 💀

I guess being able to connect to any Wikimedia site sounds like a nice feature, but I wouldn't call that an "anti-feature".

Sounds bad.

Just tried it, looks like a feed of random wikipedia articles. The first article that came up was about some french village, not exactly engaging to be honest.

I've seen this idea before

Wow this is neat! It's making Wikipedia more engaging, something I could actually read more regularly.

I understand, intellectually, that some people might love this.

To me, this is on the same level as offering to set my building materials on fire before I build my house. I can't imagine any way this could make things better.

I'm a person that saw this and thought "YES!".

It's a way to make my mindless scrolling a little bit less mindless. It's not a Wikipedia alternative it's a tiktok alternative (I don't use tiktok, but I understand why people do, my attention span is also shattered). Obviously it's not going to replace looking things up on Wikipedia, and I love exploring links in Wikipedia articles, but you don't know what you don't know so this seems like a good way to learn about things you didn't know you were interested in.

Like TikTok, but also like Walking through Wikipedia. I like it.

I love it, I just wish I could follow links in app

Already finding this nicer then TikTok.

And my partner also likes it!

I enjoyed that. I could go to the Wikipedia front page and click a random article, but (for me) flicking quickly between some topics until being interested in an ancient Mayan aristocrat and reading about her, is a content delivery service that works for me.

I get why folks might hate it, or not need it, but I often look to my phone as a randomising information delivery system. I can always look into stuff I'm interested in, but I need the chance of being introduced to topics that would never occur to me. Journalism and social media can provide a route to that, but there's something to be said for scrolling through topics until I find something that intrigues me, instead of preferencing whatever promotes engagement on Lemmy (or wherever).

This reminds me of that one company that turned books into text messenger conversations.

Whatevs. If it gets people who have their attention spans ruined by the internet to learn more things and experience more forms of media I'm game.

Link seems broken

It's an interesting idea. Could be a way to catch interest and education.

nice app

Wikipedia... TikTok... Why?

WhY NoT?

I hate everything about this idea.