bignose<p>The neverending hooks into eyeballs aspect of <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> is utterly repellent to me. Keep that addictive zombifying surveillance crap away, please.</p><p>Especially awful is the auto-playing video, and the brain-button-mashing attention-grabbing insistence of them.</p><p>This project is much more appealing:</p><p>“<a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/WikiTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikiTok</span></a>[…], feeds visitors a random list of Wikipedia articles—culled from the Wikipedia API—into a vertically scrolling interface.</p><p>“[…], there are currently no videos involved. […] If you see something you like, you can tap "Read More," and the full Wikipedia page on the topic will open in your browser.”</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/new-wikitok-web-app-allows-infinite-tiktok-style-scroll-of-wikipedia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">2/new-wikitok-web-app-allows-infinite-tiktok-style-scroll-of-wikipedia/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://photog.social/@ewen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ewen</span></a></span></p>