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  • P2P vs hosting...

    • Right, so many sites try their hardest to have every thing hosted on their own platform, then they put stupid High restrictions on what you can actually do with the content because of the fact that they're now having everything on their own host. Switching from peer to peer to Cloud hosted was in my opinion the beginning of the downfall for Skype. It removed a lot of its permissions that you could give on the platform, it broke compatibility of the Unix Community which took them two and a half years to finally fix, and it actually butchered their reliability

      • Fusion 360: we have unnecessarily decided to force you to use the cloud for this product

        Also Fusion 360: *Noooo all you free users are using up too much of our server space, you will have to pay.

        Here is an idea, let me run it on my PC and it won't use any of your servers

    • laughs in telegram

    • Gotta use a zero-knowledge VPN for all P2P transfers.

  • The fucking bane of my existence I swear, all my homies hate filesize limits.

    Fortunately we have a few options, some better than others, and if it helps one person Imma talk about it now.

    Magic-wormhole: My favorite, CLI client that shares files from your computer to a server to be downloaded with a password you send through your normal means of communication. No filesize limit, files stay on the server for 1h unless downloaded (deleted after download.) For sensitive information I would PGP it before I upload but I have trust issues.

    Warp: Magic wormhole, but GUI. Second favorite, only because I love my terminal so much. It's literally just a GUI wrapper for magic wormhole though so no complaints from me. Works on windows too iirc, and the android wrapper for it is called just "wormhole" alone, no "magic."

    Onionshare: Sends files directly from your pc to theirs, works through Tor. I have gotten it to work before, but sometimes it hates me and refuses to connect, usually when I try to DL from mobile.

    Soulseek: Not exactly private, but it works if you can forward a port. If you need privacy you'll have to mark the files as private, probably name them something nondescript like "file1," and set it so only your trusted buddies can download it, then whitelist the buddy you want to share it with for that time (would have to remove trust for buddies by default, only enabling the ones for the current file to be shared, then swap that again next time. Like I said it "works" but it's far from ideal. Would also PGP them files to be safe.)

    Torrents: well we all know this one, it's the classic!

    I'm probably forgetting some/don't know some, so anyone else feel free to add!

    • The classic would probably be plain old FTP, but SFTP/SCP/SSH works fine as well.

      When I need to share files to newbs I usually just use a small Node script to host an HTTPS server from terminal, and give them a file link

      • I remember being shown FTP back in high school and finding any reason at all to use it, in spite of the fact there were better alternatives for my friends to access certain files, especially considering I probably got the shit of Kazaa anyway. But we FTP'd, and it was slow most of the time, or slower than any of the shares, but it felt good.

  • Back in 2010 my best friend at the time sent me an entire pirated copy of need for speed most wanted in a zip file through Skype. It took the entire day for it to send and then it took my weak ass computer until I woke up the next morning to unzip the folder the game was on. I remember waking up and being overjoyed that it was at 97% completion. I only had to wait another few minutes for it to finish.

    I still have that exe to this day. It's basically impossible to play the game otherwise. I actually store the exe on my phone since it has so much storage and it's easy to move it over thanks to USB 3.0 and higher. I do that with a lot of games actually.

  • Recently I wanted to transfer one 20GB file to my brother and I ended up using FileZilla.

    But before that I tried some quick effortless solutions (like opening Skype/Teams and using that) and I failed.

    I miss opening the IM app and quickly transfer something.

  • Isn't the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.

  • The difference between having 2 active user vs. having billions.

    • Not being able to transfer more than 100MB is just them lacking motivation. They don't even need to host files just make everything bigger than 100 MB a torrent or something similarly p2p. Skype's file transfers worked like that if I remember right.

      Let everyone who wants the file also serve the file to other people that want it.

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