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submitted 11 months ago by KDE to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Hello fellow lemmy users ,

i was wondering whats the best file sharing protocol/app/website , tbh send.vis.ee seems to be currently the best to me but still i wanted your opinion here are things i found

  1. Localsend
  2. ffsend
  3. croc
  4. webtorrent
  5. magic-wormhole
  6. using curl on 0x0.st or pixeldrain
  7. (anonfiles has left so thats sad)
  8. rsync / ssh
  9. onionshare
  10. ipfs

#from what i am hearing , magic-wormhole makes the most sense since they seem to be the most open standard of sharing files but still seems incomplete or the lack of information on such topic makes me feels wierd.

croc seems to have a lot of cve and magic wormhole passed that test from suse's audit. webtorrent seems to fit in a wierd niche and its implementations like file.pizza arent really that well built ( considering you cant send multi files over there)

i would prefer cli but gui's as well so that i can send it to somebody else , i would like foss protocol since we can build on that other apps as well , and earlier i used to use shareit which was so bad that literally the govt pulled it because of chinese concerns
currently using localsend but warp (magic-wormhole)/warpinator is also looking good

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[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I don't think there is a one-fits-all solution. It depends what you are trying to do. For me it goes something like this:

  • transfer multiple files from 2 computers under my control: rsync
  • transfer few files between computers in my local network: NFS or SMB
  • tranfer 1 file from 2 computers in my control: scp
  • synchronize files between computers/phones: syncthing
  • synchronize files with cloud hosting: rclone
  • distribute files with relatives: cloud hosting, share link (I use pCloud, not FOSS)
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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