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[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

As interesting as it is...

Using the snap package is recommended if supported.

Ew

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] pulido@lemmings.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

https://www.justbeamit.com/

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

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours 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.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] a14o@feddit.org 9 points 23 hours 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.

[–] Kng@feddit.rocks 2 points 23 hours ago

This is the community fork that is still maintained. There are multiple instances like invidious and from what I understand it is relatively easy to self host. Since it is only for short term file storage and its E2EE I do not really mind using one of the public instances.

[–] xela@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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."

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] Comexs@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any difference between croc and this?

[–] a14o@feddit.org 6 points 23 hours 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).

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

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