He certainly was influenced by a certain political scene about seven years ago, parroting Ben Shapiro at a few occasions and featuring a lot of anti-sjw humour in his videos.

But that was seven years ago and he clearly majorly changed his views on his platform after the Christchurch shootings.

Best: small instances with a stable admin team.

Because we dont want people to lose their home instance again in a few months if a hobby server instance shuts down

Lemm.ee had and still has strict limitations to image uploads, forcing its users to use external image providers like catbox.moe or postimages. So these images should all still be there.

Granted, I’m not sure how the thumbnails for these externally hosted images work and if they’re exclusively stored on lemm.ee

Maybe admins/app developers doing test posts?

I dont think lemmy supports this. Posts and comments on your “old” account will stay there and if you look at that profile from the view of another account, will still be visible.

Maybe exporting them as a downloadable archive is possible? So you could keep a copy on your desktop? I dont know.

It won’t be gone, but rather appear as an archived copy when the profile is displayed from an existing working instance. So the posts and comments will all still be there.

The bookmarks however I don’t know.

Subscriptions can be exported out of your current account and then imported into your new account.

They also defederate from piracy communities

They didnt need mods though, they needed admins

The @ behind your Username says lemm.ee , so yes you are a lemm.ee user

Well because your original post was kinda misleading.

There are multiple things you talk about:

• “Ding-ding” notifications - well you can adjust notifications, to help with not developing an addiction

• her group chat - do they want to move their friend group chat to a fedi platform? Or were you just clumsily wording?

• family fedi server - that is what you are talking about now, and it’s a completely different thing. You could set up a closed-registration mastodon or vernissage instance for that, but tbh I wouldnt recommend using any ActivityPub software for the purpose of sharing private photos and messages with your family. Because there is always the danger of that data federating to all kinds of servers…

Might be worth it to email Corridor and ask them if there is an easy way to download the videos

Oh I never knew this!

This.

Well yes, the whole concept of the fediverse is that of social media as a public service. All activitypub data is public.