[skybrian]

I'm wondering if IPFS might be better thought of as a common data-publishing protocol that might be used to push content to any number of CDN's?

So, you could publish content to IPFS and tell your favorite CDN to pick it up, and you pay them to keep it active. But IPFS isn't limited to one CDN, so you could always pick another one. And your users could also go through a different CDN. Or some people who really want to could run their own CDN and pin whatever they want to host.

[sriku]

The Dat protocol was supposed to play that role (https://dat.foundation/)

[davidgerard]

> I'm wondering if IPFS might be better thought of as a common data-publishing protocol that might be used to push content to any number of CDN's?

Think of the bits that work properly as "the web of BitTorrent magnet: links" and you'll have a reasonably accurate picture.