No. If the project is interesting enough for people spending their time developing and using it there will always be running Lemmy instances. The need for funding over the amount people are willing to dedicate to a hobby project is the death of a project like this.

I don’t see a “we” in this, follow the free software way: Don’t like it? Fork it yourself or don’t use it.

I have voted against the abolition of the death penality in Hesse back in 2018 (if i remember correctly) when there was a public vote on that matter… you never know when it may become handy…

Is a presence on Gopher and IRC cosidered social media?