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I've been wondering this. If a comment contains illegal content, which is possible in some cases, and blame can be extended beyond the commenter to the content provider, which is also possible, then is every instance the comment federates across culpable?
Best to look at federated instances as more official, set-in-stone subreddits. They all (usually) have rules and most of the time the instance is not responsible for a single person doing actions like that. If a kick or ban is also swiftly given, that usually also voids the instance owners of any illegal content.
Companies aren't responsible for it so I doubt instances will get in trouble.
The EU is controversially making moves to place responsibility upon the companies. Plus, more than one country, recently Canada, has introduced a "link tax", a backass absurd regulation, where link aggregators have to pay news sites for clicks through to their articles. Would every Lemmy instance be responsible for tracking and paying for clicks of an article federated from any one instance?