It would be nice if Lemmy had a way to consolidate cross posts to avoid this problem. I also find it annoying - if they would all collapse down to a single entry in the feed, it would solve it.

I like to say “before the turn of the century”, but someone always gives me shit for it.

I think they were just expressing empathy. If so, I agree with that sentiment. Your family done you dirty. Hope things are better now, or shortly will be.

I really hope it will turn out that they got a bunch of useful stuff from Alex Jones’ cell phone data.

To be fair, the hand wringing activities around exploding heads probably included a lot of soul searching and deciding what is and is not important to the admins. Stands to reason that having learned and made some decisions from that would make the process faster next time around.