If we all spun up our own personal services, there would just be that many more shutting down.
I love the fediverse but the whole “there’s so many TLDs, you have to use a third party link service that you need to share links through and that the person clicking the links needs to configure on their end before it will forward them to a link where they’re still logged in and can see the content” is absolutely laughable to me. I am always amazed that nobody from lemmy or piefed have attempted to make the linking process make at least some sense.
There’s more than one, all the better to make the process more convoluted for both the poster and viewer. This is the only one I use. You share via this service, the person clicking the link has to configure the service for their instance they are on and then they’ll see the links configured for their instance.
https://threadiverse.link/