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Wow lots of websites are affected, including Medium. The perils of centralization strike again. Though ironically, I noticed that the IPFS website uses cloudflare as well. The actual IPFS network is working just fine though, and I'm not aware of IPFS ever having any global outages. Though then again, I'm not aware of any on bittorrent either

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The concept of "being down" doesn't really apply to protocols. IPFS/BitTorrent never being down is a bit like saying that TCP/HTTP has never been down. Individual servers/client can have connection issues, but obviously won't affect clients not connected to those, and is not because of the protocols themselves.

But the infrastructures those protocols provide (the IPFS network, torrent swarms) can be an alternative to Cloudflare. Which is why I brought it up

Not to state the obvious, but... if a big centralized company built a Cloudflare for IPFS to make it easy for the masses to adopt, that company could go down just as easy as Cloudflare.

How so? Somebody links to a webpage, decentralized resolver converts it to an IPFS hash, which the client queries for any providers of that hash, and retrieves directly from them. No central authority necessary

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