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[–] swooosh@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know about that one. Why, there's no objection in adding more to the collection right here. 😊

[–] prowess2956@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm definitely here for more alternatives as well (and because I haven't yet figured out how to save a post without commenting)

[–] swooosh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Depends on the client. Configuration for it in Eternity is in the settings

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I miss some parts of Kbin, but I'm very glad to have a perfectly functional save feature in Photon...

(And that the threads actually load.)

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't find anything on that site that talks about how it works. That's disappointing.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Fork Us" button goes right to the github repo.

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, that's exactly the kind of information they should have on their main site.

[–] D_Air1@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I use resilio sync across my work and personal phones and I use it to backup my phones to my nas. No need to turn it on/off, it's accessible only via secret key or shared link and it's encrypted.

I know sync isn't foss but it's the best one I've found over the years and it just works.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Love resilio. Fantastic for travelling to quickly pull up your passport or visa or train tickets you reserved before. Just leave a computer running at home (like a home server).

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What's the advantage over syncthing?

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe Syncthing isn't on iOS.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Mobius Sync is an iOS app for it. Free version has max directory size 25mb(?) but dev seems to have good attitudes; it's something I wouldn't mind paying for.

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's a bit more consumer focused, easier for Grandma kind of thing. Syncthing isn't hard, but does have in my opinion a bit more difficult of an initial setup with features like introducers that can make things difficult if configured wrong.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Iirc if you pay for it the main thing is selective sync

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah why wasn't syncthing on the list?

[–] SimonSaysStuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No love for SwissTransfer from Infomaniak. Shame.

[–] uhrbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Didn't see the comment before posting

Totally agree, swiss transfer is incredible but I thought its use was restricted to Switzerland?

[–] monoboy@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 months ago

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
[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] pro3757@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven't used magic-wormhole so can't compare the two though.

[–] Smoke@frogdrool.net 1 points 11 months ago

@pro3757 @petsoi can confirm, croc is awesome.

you can even use your own infrastructure as the midpoint.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm surprised Magic Wormhole wasn't on here. There's a gnome app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

Wormhole ftw

[–] cymor@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] kib48@lemdro.id 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] Excigma@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

PairDrop(dot)net is a fork with a bit more features

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why isn't syncthing there? Is there something bad with it I'm not aware of amor are they just not aware of it?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

I think because Syncthing isn't really for "sharing" files. It can move large files across the internet but it's not designed for "hey send me a copy of that blu-ray your ripped" sharing.

[–] uhrbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

If your swiss, just use swisstransfer.com. it's fast, supports up to 50gb of data, 500 transfers per day (and free!), more than you'll ever need. Although for security, they do say your filles are sent over https, but because they do not promote encryption I suppose they don't support that (although they do support password protected files).

So yeah, it's usually more than enough for most use cases, although I'd encrypt my files before sending them if they contain sensitive data, but that's rarely the case.

[–] hushable@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting to see wormhole mentioned as non open source. The protocol and its CLI tools are, probably the web interface and GUIs are not

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Based on this reddit comment, that website is not affiliated with the magic-wormhole CLI tool

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago

VPN server and any NAS or other network file share.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] little_tuptup@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does scp resume broken transfers? If not, maybe rsync instead. Lots can go wrong for connectivity over the span of hours/days

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

You're right

[–] Phil35@fosstodon.org 0 points 11 months ago

@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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Soulseek never stopped working.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Secure though? Is it end-to-end encrypted?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Right, but the article explicitly mentions securely, so I thought those types of tools would be more relevant to recommend.