Websites for file transfer without downloading additional software or apps (megatech.ng)

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[-] Merulox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Why didn’t torrenting become the go-to file transfer method and a must-have for every computer?

[-] kucuva@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

probably because there's not way to police who connects to your computer in a built in way for novice users. BT just opens up your computer to anyone who wants to connect, to the seed of course.

Also, more people care about streaming on demand than file ownership/transfer these days, but content creators want guaranteed content delivery via a CDN, I assume out of some kind of sales pitch these companies do. Compared to maybe some uptime on BT, its a hard sell and I doubt BT pushers are salesmen anyways.

[-] Comjn@dormi.zone 6 points 1 year ago

I like file.pizza for the off-moments I need to send a file immediately to someone.

Its essentially just a peer-to-peer tunnel so once you close the website it stops transferring the file

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So .pizza is a valid TLD, huh

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Blocked for me 😔. Imagine that's a barrier for others too then. Must have made it's way into a blacklist somehow

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

All four examples requires web browser to download additional software in a form of scripts bundled into the website. And three of them all propietary apps, so it's better to refure their use.

Don't really know why they build them this way, browsers can send and recieve files without it via POST and GET methods, why requiering additional JavaScript?

[-] kucuva@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

actually you can run p2p and BitTorrent in the browser API now

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not going to mention wetransfer? Been around for many years and always works well. My favorite

[-] thecam@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I like Send. It is FOSS and anyone can send host an instance.

https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send-instances

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