What are your favorite ephemeral tools, for short term sharing? (discuss.online)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34584845

Curious on what tools people would recommend, either from clients, locally or self-hosted.

privatebin works nicely as a basic pastebin.

stuffedanimalwar is just silly fun, with group drawing collaboration and chat that only exists in the active client session.

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[-] oh_gosh_its_osh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Rustypaste

As it barely uses any resources.

[-] palarith@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Magic wormhole

[-] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Cool, just received a couple recommendations for this. Thanks.

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