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Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time.
The English language, along with other European ones, adopted the word and used it as similar meaning, slow and delayed. In English, the word "to decelerate" would become a more common term than "to retard", while in others like French [9] or Catalan, [10] retard is still in common usage to mean 'delay' .
In the internet's infancy, "surfing" was a common verb used in reference to browsing the internet; similarly, the word "scrolling" refers to sliding through online content. [8] After 3 years of being on the Merriam-Webster "watching" list, "doomscrolling" was recognized as an official word in September 2023. [9]
The term was named Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, beating other words like demure and romantasy. [7] [8] Its modern usage is defined by the Oxford University Press as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging".
Much has changed since President-elect Donald Trump first entered the White House in 2017. According to 538's average of polls of Trump's favorability rating, 47.2 percent of American adults have ...
Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you Image credits: qqasdfzz #3
Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO. On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced it would charge for its API service amid a potential initial public offering. [6] Speaking to The New York Times ' Mike Isaac, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said, "The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free".