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Oh yeah, definitely not. FOSS combined with federation means that even if the main instance and dev team are toast, someone else could pick up where they left off and run with it. Lemmy doesn't necessarily need Lemmy.ml to function, which you couldn't say about voat (or Reddit, for that matter.)