I suppose you’re right, though that’s quite involved when all I want is to host an image.

Is pixelfed really a good way to prevent dead links? I don’t know much about it other than that it’s part of the fediverse, so I’d assume any pictures hosted there last only as long as the instance they’re posted to.

I use DuckDuckGo. When I first heard about it, I tried it for a bit, found that it didn’t really give good results, and switched back to Google. Some years later I found that Google also stopped giving good results, so I figured that if my search results just aren’t going to be good, I’ll at least switch away from Google.