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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by recursive on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:04PM (#42794927)
That's called doom scrolling.
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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by joshlemer on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:24PM (#42795210)
I thought doom scrolling was specifically about negative content, but now it just means any kind of mindless endless scrolling?
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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by Almondsetat on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:26PM (#42795231)
No, the original definition of the word always referred to the mental state of the user. Then the definition got hijacked somehow to mean "negative content"
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