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https://wormhole.app/ has been spared and is pretty good. Encrypted, dl can start before up is finished, decent size limit.

Unrelated to the wormhole python cli tool and associated file sharing protocol.




Both not to be confused with Web Wormhole, which is also pretty good: https://webwormhole.io/

Slightly different approach – "P2P first", i.e. both sender and receiver need to be online simultaneously throughout the transfer, but there's a TURN relay, so it should work in almost all network constellations.


It's not a p2p tool btw.


It can be, if you send files larger than 5GB. https://wormhole.app/faq


Yeah, it uses webtorrent behind the scenes: https://webtorrent.io

...which is freaking awesome torrent software, by the way.


It's okay - 99% of the video files I download have to be opened in VLC, though :/

But still, being able to almost immediately stream, even if through VLC, is pretty nice.


I use https://onionshare.org/. It's not p2p afaik, but dang! that one is easy to work with.




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