word was that most of other instances on .ml top level domain had free domains, which the government took away, while lemmy.ml was paid domain and not a free one, so it's still alive. but we'll see.
in worst case they will migrate current server and config to another domain.
there’s no reason think that the lemmy.ml instance - the instance run by the lemmy API devs - is going to just disappear. it’s very likely they’ll just migrate to a different domain if they have to.