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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

As interesting as it is...

Using the snap package is recommended if supported.

Ew

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://www.justbeamit.com/

You can also make a torrent very easily, which is the better method.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

If you care about security, OnionShare beats all these webRTC implementations

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've not heard of "Firefox Send." Why would I use something like this instead of scp or Nextcloud?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Because the other person might not have ssh or access to your nextcloud

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this Firefox Send thingy centralized? Also I've read that it's actually a dead project.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

ffsend targets Send which is an actively maintained community fork of Firefox Send.

It's not centralized, you can host your own or choose from the public send instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The Thunderbird team is actually looking to bring it back as part of their new (paid I believe) services along with Thundermail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Any difference between croc and this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

If I'm not mistaken, ffsend generates a link that you can share with non-tech people (which is a big difference in my book).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It says on the github page that this is limited to 1gb only

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm confused, is this different than?

https://send.vis.ee/

This site states "⚠️ Send will be terminated on May 24th. ⚠️ Costs are getting too high to keep hosting this service. Find an alternative instance here or host your own."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It literally says "Firefox Send client" in the title.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I always liked the concept of blaze, but it seems like development stopped 2 years ago.

https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze

Using webtorrents for multi-peer transfers & being able to UL/DL from a URL.