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A comment on My Struggle with Doom Scrolling. Parent comment

Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by Almondsetat on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:25PM (#42795221)
No, the definition was always about the state of the person doing the scrolling, not of the content. For some reason it them changed, and now it appears to be coming back to the original meaning
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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by dleink on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:28PM (#42797127)
I'm not sure we can use such definitive language about the definitions of new words.
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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by johnfn on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:48PM (#42796746)
That is not true. Look up the definition of doomscrolling and most sources (e.g. wikipedia) will say that it tends to be negative content.
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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by olyjohn on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:01PM (#42809886)
Most sources, but not all! To me, watching 8 hours of puppies, kittens and rainbows in a day would have a pretty negative impact on my life. That kind of content is negative when it becomes excessive. Heroin feels really good when you use it too. Doesn't make it a positive thing.
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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling by johnfn on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:47PM (#42845459)
You are free to use a word however you'd like, but that doesn't change the popular definition and usage of that word.
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