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I use https://dro.pm a lot to share files or links. Since the links are super short (I just made https://dro.pm/a --- note that it'll expire in 12 hours), you can just give the link to someone over the phone, put them in a presentation, or just share files independent of any operating system.

I even use it even between my laptop and my phone fairly frequently, since the top suggestion on my phone keyboard in the browser is dro.pm and I just have to add a slash (long-press "m") and a letter. It's quicker to use dropm than to open a chat with myself or send myself an email or something.

Of course this is just protected by https, and although it is source-available and the links are really gone after expiry (or when you edited it, the old contents are irretrievable), magic-wormhole is superior in that you don't have a trusted third party. For the cases where the other party doesn't have magic-wormhole installed, this might be helpful. This also alleviates the requirement of WebRTC for both parties to be online simultaneously.




Firefox Send (send.firefox.com) may be another option to share files, though the link would be longer than what you have with dro.pm.

> magic-wormhole is superior in that you don't have a trusted third party.

Well, magic-wormhole does need a trusted third party called Rendezvous Server. [1]

[1]: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#ren...


If I understand it correctly, the rendezvous server is not a trusted third party, just a message relay. They wouldn't be able to read or modify your file transfer's contents.




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