Is lemmy.ml committed to keeping its communities alive in the long-term?

I understand that the devs want to push people to other instances and keep this a niche instance. That's understandable. However, there are already communities created here and site outages break them for us on other instances as well. I would like to know if there are plans for the future of this instance and specifically:

• if it intends to stick around long term
• if it intends to scale up for the demand

If not, should we be looking to recreate them elsewhere?