I think that they are, or at least, they’re more open to the idea of it.

One of the problems that Voat had was that it launched as a “free speech” service, and was popularised at the time when people were leaving Reddit because they were banned, or had problems with the moderation. For the most part, this didn’t really affect users as much as it did troublemakers, and as such, they all ended up flocking to voat, causing it to become rather a cesspool.

That compounded in on itself, and now it’s also not the kind of place that you want to launch a new community on, just because of both the reputation of the site, and the audience involved.

By comparison, Lemmy isn’t as limited to one site, but was also popularised at a time when the problem was less moderation and free speech focused, and people leaving because they no longer wanted to support the site, owing to what the administration was doing with it. The people leaving tend to be a bit more diverse.

It also helps that Lemmy technically isn’t a single site, but more of an interconnected set of sites, that you can join by running a piece of software. Anyone can spin one up, and disconnect from ones that they do not wish to see. If one instance is particularly nasty, it can just be left to its own devices.