It was nice to see IPFS being used but very difficult to see it applied to general usage and even with browsers like Brave giving support, it never really got a

It was nice to see IPFS being used but very difficult to see it applied to general usage and even with browsers like Brave giving support, it never really got adopted because it simply isn't usable. Anyone installing it on a server will understand why. What I have been seeing as alternative is Blossom from the NOSTR platform. It became the defacto decentralized distribution protocol for media. Basically delivered what IPFS was promising with quite a dazzling simplicity. When using it, you aren't tied to servers and your connections to other relays will do their best effort to retrieve the associated files. It works OK for media, just mentioning because in case you don't see much active development on IPFS is because the cool stuff has been something else since a while.