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It's harder to cause that to happen in the Fediverse. All the sites that host copies of content would have to end up under the same controlling entity, or go offline at the same time.
The limiting factor here is storage space. The whole thing is run by volunteers, so when they bow out, instances can and inevitably do go offline, and the content they hosted shared only lasts as long as the other instances are able to store and pass it around. They'll generally only do that as long as there's regular interest in it. Basically, old posts from dead instances will be the first things to go.
I imagine instances may also purge their own old posts if there's a storage crisis, but the whole thing is new enough that I don't think it's quite got to that point yet.
If you can afford to donate to your Fediverse instances (Lemmys, Mastodons, etc.), you can help keep them live and help keep old content available for posterity.
(Even better, if you have time, money and the skill, you could run your own instance.)