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Yes and no, I'd say. I think there's something to be said for specialising UIs and platforms, and SO strikes me as something that benefits from some of that. Lemmy could certainly be the base of a SO substitute, IMO, but putting it on a separate instance with some specialised UI and policies and even dedicated development of some additional features/tooling on lemmy core as is necessary, could go quite far to making a SO work well.
Federation could still work well, though friction would likely develop between the UIs, which could hopefully be managed over time.