Thanks for your response! I have talked to the devs for one of the services I mentioned and he confirmed that they use IPFS to pull the data.
I just came across this post, and it sounds like he is encountering a similar issue.
As an example, this CID is available on the given peer. I have added this peer via ipfs swarm connect and I’ve also added it in the peering config file. However, when I run ipfs pin add or ipfs get, it still takes over a minute to discover the data. How is this possible if I am directly connected to a peer which I know has it available?
