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  • It specifically describes downvoting as being part of a bad attitude. Not sure I’m in agreement with that at all. So, to be perceived as having a great attitude, I’m supposed to love everything here 100%

    Not quite. There is more on the fediverse than you could possibly vote on, up or down. Which means that the stuff you are voting on is the stuff you have curated in to your feeds, and decided needs interaction. And it’s reasonable to say that if most of the stuff you are choosing to interact with is stuff that makes you hate vote it, then you’re probably not carrying a positive attitude

    Edit - And for what it’s worth, you have a 100% attitude on my instance, because we have downvotes disabled! :)





  • Think of it this way.

    “I went back in time to save my family” in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn’t exist before, in which the family doesn’t make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the “real” family of the person who went back in time.

    The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn’t change the fact that it didn’t make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren’t “saved” from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren’t.

    The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)

    Edit - Or you could tell a non infinite loop story, where a single universe is spawned by the act of jumping back in time. That still won’t save the “real” versions of the family you jumped back to save, they’re still gone, but at least it creates only a single version of them that the character can save.










  • It’s not a “common practice on blahaj”. It’s just how lemmy does instance bans.

    I generally don’t community ban people, I tend to instance ban them, because if they’re breaking community rules, but not instance rules, it’s up the community mods to deal with, and if they’re breaking instance rules, they get an instance ban.

    And when you instance ban someone, and choose to remove their content, that’s what it looks like in a modlog. It’s not because I’ve gone and selected a whole bunch of community bans. It’s just how lemmy works




  • Apologies, I copied and pasted the answer below from another reply I made elsewhere in this thread

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    I’m not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I’m talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.

    In a “real” scenario, the experience that matters is the one I’m having, not the one other versions of me might be having.

    But in a story, there is no “true” timeline, or a more “real” timeline. They’re all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn’t matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn’t tell us those stories.


  • I’m not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I’m talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.

    In a “real” scenario, the experience that matters is the one I’m having, not the one other versions of me might be having.

    But in a story, there is no “true” timeline, or a more “real” timeline. They’re all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn’t matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn’t tell us those stories.