It’s a specific situation. The projects I assist are small (100-10000 dau) but dedicated. High definition nft in particular can consume a lot of bandwidth. These projects are relying on free version of cdn. Of course if you are a big public enterprise cdn will be faster. But for a small and dedicated international community, a tutorial on downloading and running a local IPFS node with a browser extension means especially since often users are geographically co located they get a faster downlod speed than free cdn. Yes nodes go on and offline but because the community cares about their dapp members will run IPFS nodes on their own pc which requires almost no technical knowledge. The peering system is good enough for IPFS nto not have caused issues with community nodes going up and down.
Yes much slower without locally run IPFS node and extension. Fleek is good because it uses bunny cdn as a backup for users who aren’t on IPFS. I wouldn’t trust any public IPFS node to be fast, I’ve used piñata which has had so many issues. While fleeks public IPFS nodes are also slow same as cloudflare. Really for IPFS to work you need the community to pick up slack and run local nodes
(Also don’t apologize, that free web is exactly why I started learning to use IPFS then later found actual useful case people wanted lol)
Also on brave browser- haven’t tested it but if you run local IPFS node and configure it in theory should be fast. However I dont encourage brave as some of their practices are mildly distasteful.
Yes much slower without locally run IPFS node and extension. Fleek is good because it uses bunny cdn as a backup for users who aren’t on IPFS. I wouldn’t trust any public IPFS node to be fast, I’ve used piñata which has had so many issues. While fleeks public IPFS nodes are also slow same as cloudflare. Really for IPFS to work you need the community to pick up slack and run local nodes
(Also don’t apologize, that free web is exactly why I started learning to use IPFS then later found actual useful case people wanted lol)
Also on brave browser- haven’t tested it but if you run local IPFS node and configure it in theory should be fast. However I dont encourage brave as some of their practices are mildly distasteful.