They may not expose the actual PDF to you at all, just some software rendering of it. In that case I’d focus on making screenshotting efficient. Find a program that lets you save the whole screen to file automatically at once (one button press), or use Firefox ctrl+shift+s -> click on the page area -> save -> enter.
I mean okay, this answers your question, but this is up to date for now. These are very early days and I expect a lot more drama and defede’s to come, if Lemmy will survive. You can’t predict that exactly.
If you cared only about not being banned being by anyone, you could just pick an instance with lowest BBY. But you said you also care about the breadth of content (both NSFW and general stuff), and as you said these could be in conflict in the future. If they will, we’re kind of screwed anyway.
I would not assume the worst tho. We’re not on a bad trajectory of banning everywhere left and right at the very start. There is more panic among people about stuff that could happen hypothetically. I have good hopes for Lemmy.
So far it seems that known bans (except the universal one for lemmygrad) are motivated by behavior of the users, not the contents on the instance. I hope it will stay this way. They do not have to read it, you can even hide NSFW here and it works. The other instances are not advertisers who fear NSFW the most.
By flocking to instances doing defederation you encourage this behavior and eventually they are/will be the most happy to ban stuff inside. I am happy to comment from here anywhere, including beehaw etc. (which we still can), but won’t bother to make accounts on closed silos.
As one user I don’t think you can “strategize” better than picking an open instance that is not overrun by trolls and vandals. I think this one is good enough?
Feedback: to see an example one has to click through to another file in the repo.
Is it a subset of Markdown or YAML? It is a type of decision that it would be good to be upfront with to the users. It also gives you a framework for further thinking and development, and some out of the box parsability.