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+          }
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+        "formdata-polyfill": {
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+          "requires": {
+            "fetch-blob": "^3.1.2"
+          }
+        },
+        "node-domexception": {
+          "version": "1.0.0",
+          "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/node-domexception/-/node-domexception-1.0.0.tgz",
+          "integrity": "sha512-/jKZoMpw0F8GRwl4/eLROPA3cfcXtLApP0QzLmUT/HuPCZWyB7IY9ZrMeKw2O/nFIqPQB3PVM9aYm0F312AXDQ=="
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+        "web-streams-polyfill": {
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       }
     },
     "node-forge": {
@@ -36994,6 +37318,35 @@
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         "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
         "readable-stream": "^3.6.0"
+      },
+      "dependencies": {
+        "node-fetch": {
+          "version": "2.7.0",
+          "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/node-fetch/-/node-fetch-2.7.0.tgz",
+          "integrity": "sha512-c4FRfUm/dbcWZ7U+1Wq0AwCyFL+3nt2bEw05wfxSz+DWpWsitgmSgYmy2dQdWyKC1694ELPqMs/YzUSNozLt8A==",
+          "requires": {
+            "whatwg-url": "^5.0.0"
+          }
+        },
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+          "version": "0.0.3",
+          "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/tr46/-/tr46-0.0.3.tgz",
+          "integrity": "sha512-N3WMsuqV66lT30CrXNbEjx4GEwlow3v6rr4mCcv6prnfwhS01rkgyFdjPNBYd9br7LpXV1+Emh01fHnq2Gdgrw=="
+        },
+        "webidl-conversions": {
+          "version": "3.0.1",
+          "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/webidl-conversions/-/webidl-conversions-3.0.1.tgz",
+          "integrity": "sha512-2JAn3z8AR6rjK8Sm8orRC0h/bcl/DqL7tRPdGZ4I1CjdF+EaMLmYxBHyXuKL849eucPFhvBoxMsflfOb8kxaeQ=="
+        },
+        "whatwg-url": {
+          "version": "5.0.0",
+          "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/whatwg-url/-/whatwg-url-5.0.0.tgz",
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+            "webidl-conversions": "^3.0.0"
+          }
+        }
       }
     },
     "randombytes": {
@@ -37917,9 +38270,6 @@
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       }
     },
-    "tr46": {
-      "version": "0.0.3"
-    },
     "tree-kill": {
       "version": "1.2.2",
       "dev": true
@@ -38449,9 +38799,6 @@
         "tslib": "^2.4.0"
       }
     },
-    "webidl-conversions": {
-      "version": "3.0.1"
-    },
     "webpack": {
       "version": "5.75.0",
       "requires": {
@@ -38534,13 +38881,6 @@
     "webpack-sources": {
       "version": "3.2.3"
     },
-    "whatwg-url": {
-      "version": "5.0.0",
-      "requires": {
-        "tr46": "~0.0.3",
-        "webidl-conversions": "^3.0.0"
-      }
-    },
     "which": {
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diff --git a/packages/backend/package.json b/packages/backend/package.json
index 8a443cf572..77ba5117ec 100644
--- a/packages/backend/package.json
+++ b/packages/backend/package.json
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
     "events": "^3.2.0",
     "express": "^4.17.1",
     "fetch-retry": "^6.0.0",
+    "node-fetch": "^3.3.0",
     "fastq": "^1.17.1",
     "get-port": "^5.1.1",
     "go-ipfs": "npm:mocked-go-ipfs@0.17.0",
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/nest/storageServerProxy/storageServerProxy.service.ts b/packages/backend/src/nest/storageServerProxy/storageServerProxy.service.ts
index 8f725025c5..4a97ade66d 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/nest/storageServerProxy/storageServerProxy.service.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/nest/storageServerProxy/storageServerProxy.service.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { ServerStoredCommunityMetadata } from './storageServerProxy.types'
 import fetchRetry, { RequestInitWithRetry } from 'fetch-retry'
 import Logger from '../common/logger'
 import { isServerStoredMetadata } from '../validation/validators'
+import fetch from 'node-fetch'
 
 class HTTPResponseError extends Error {
   response: Response
@@ -19,11 +20,11 @@ export class ServerProxyService extends EventEmitter {
   private readonly logger = Logger(ServerProxyService.name)
   _serverAddress: string
   fetch: any
-  fetchConfig: RequestInitWithRetry<typeof fetch>
+  fetchConfig: any
 
   constructor() {
     super()
-    this.fetch = fetchRetry(global.fetch)
+    this.fetch = fetchRetry(fetch)
     this.fetchConfig = {
       retries: this.DEFAULT_FETCH_RETRIES,
       retryDelay: (attempt: number, _error: Error | null, _response: Response | null) => {