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That is kinda bullshit if they didn't even see the content.
Just because they didn't participate doesn't mean they didn't know it was there.
You know that some servers can have tens of thousands of people right?
What's your point? That personal responsibly stops existing in a large group of people?
I mean, Lemmy used to have a big issue with CSAM being spammed by malicious users. Many people believed that it was pro-Reddit trolls, because it started happening right around the same time as the giant API debacle. It was a huge liability for the instance owners, because their server would automatically cache the content and they could be held liable for the CSAM being present on their server. It took a few months of dev time to add moderation tools, blacklisting, setting up automods, etc before it finally calmed down to the point that instance owners felt comfortable again.
By your logic, every single user in instances that got spammed should be banned. Because even if they didn’t see it, or interact with it in any way, they’re still personally responsible for it. After all, personal responsibility doesn’t stop existing in a large group of people.
Lemmy is celebrating cracking 50,000 users. Discord has 200 million MAU. They take a broader approach to punishment because it's the only feasible way to avoid legal problems.
IIRC some Lemmy instances were defederated at that time for poor moderation and nobody complained. Its a reasonable approach to avoid liability.
So, what you're saying is, if someone on your Lemmy instance breaks the rules of another instance, your entire instance should be defederated, right?
When are you turning yourself in for associating with that one pedophile by existing in the same country?
My point is that it's very naïve to assume that everyone in a given server knows what one person potentially posted once, especially the large servers.
Of course it's possible they knew, but assuming by default that they had to have known is stupid.