Can someone recommend a good resource for getting a neglected bike back into riding condition? What tools I need, what sort of parts I should check if they need replacement, so on?
Well the first question is, if you throw lube on the chain (and everything that touches the chain like all the gears) and put air in the tires and then take it for a spin, what feels wrong? The brakes? The shifters? Do the tires hold air? Are the brakes dragging even when you don’t touch them? Can you shift through all the gears without unseating the chain? Those are in my experience the common afflictions of a neglected bike, but if its been kept dry it might be surprisingly rideable.
when i follow a lemmy community on mastodon, the "account" of the community boosts both posts and replies - that is not how it is on lemmy itself, and the replies being boosted lead to a lot of out-of-context on my timeline. why is that so, and is it possible to change it so that it boosts only posts?
Eventually Mastodon will get a standard implementation of quote-toots. At that point I’d think the appropriate way to represent Lemmy comments as toots would be to represent the toots as quote-tooting the root (post) toot. You’d still have to click the toot to see the context of the parent toot, but that’s a client problem - imho clients should always have an easier way to view the parent of a reply-toot than doing a full-page nav to the reply-toot in context of its thread, and the fact that they don’t is a problem on every twitter-style microblogging platform. But you’d have quick context of which article they’re replying to.