Me and a buddy just set up syncthing and use that when we need to do this and don't want in third parties involved. Turn it off when you are done.
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Yeah why wasn't syncthing on the list?
I do:
- Wormhole.app: for smaller file transfers to people not tech savvy
- Rsync: if the person is running an SSH server I can connect to
- Bittorrent: pretty much anything else
No love for SwissTransfer from Infomaniak. Shame.
There's croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven't used magic-wormhole so can't compare the two though.
I'm surprised Magic Wormhole wasn't on here. There's a gnome app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.
I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.
Why isn't syncthing there? Is there something bad with it I'm not aware of amor are they just not aware of it?
Wormhole ftw
Anyone have any objections or anything negative to say about snapdrop(dot)net besides maybe anyone on the same network could try to connect to you?
snapdrop.net seems to go down all the time, I stopped using it a while ago and switched to LocalSend
neither of them work over the internet though so they don't really fit the article
BitTorrent
Soulseek never stopped working.
Secure though? Is it end-to-end encrypted?
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha... no.
but it does allow you to only share your files with a specific other user.
however, it's explicitly not secure. It's literally from the Kazaa era of file transfer apps.
Right, but the article explicitly mentions securely, so I thought those types of tools would be more relevant to recommend.
@petsoi
none of the four
I only use:
https://drive.proton.me/
easy, secured, no need to have a proton account for others, links can be time limited
#protondrive #proton #teamProton
VPN server and any NAS or other network file share.