mrus,

I found LocalSend to be significantly more reliable than Snapdrop. Also it doesn’t require hosting.

marsxyz,

I’ll try. Snapdrop is almost good

vort3,
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But can you use it to send to a device where you can’t install stuff?

mrus,

Where would that be?

vort3,
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If you want to send something to a computer in school or a work PC or something without admin rights.

snapdrop / sharedrop work in browser, without any installation, and that’s the point. As much as I hate web apps, sometimes they are your only option.

I agree that localsend is great when you need to exchange files between your devices often, but when you quickly need to send a file to someone’s PC without admin rights, snapdrop and sharedrop are a faster way to achieve that.

AustralianSimon,

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    mrus,

    Well, yes, I did just that. Not sure why that would be an issue.

    Stalins_Spoon,
    @Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml avatar

    It’s easier to get someone to visit a website than to make them download an app

    istanbullu,

    I currently use KDE Connect. Is it similar?

    peregus,

    If I don’t remember wrong, KDE Connect needs to be installed on both the devices you need to transfer file/text to/from, with Snapdrop (and PairDrop) you just need to selfhost it (or use the official website) without the need to install anything and they *can *work even when sender and receiver are on different network

    istanbullu,

    thanks.

    does it allow filesystem expose as well, or just sending files?

    peregus,

    Just sending files

    RmDebArc_5,
    @RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I prefer Sharedrop it allows transfer between networks and has a better up time

    aleph,
    @aleph@lemm.ee avatar

    Also PairDrop. I tested a few of these sharing apps and found this one to be slightly better for reasons that I can no longer remember.

    peregus,

    Idem

    peregus,

    Are you selfhosting it? Were you able to set it up to work even with devices on different networks with turn/coturn server?

    aleph,
    @aleph@lemm.ee avatar

    Not self hosting - just using the web app.

    Dymonika,

    What is the filesize limit? Is it better than Mozilla’s list of Send instances or ToffeeShare?

    ErwinLottemann,

    i think there is no limit (at least on the software side), because it’s local network only, so mothing is uploaded to a server but directly to the recipient. i could be wrong though.

    sorter_plainview,

    There is no limit implemented, but it constantly failed to get an 8gb file to be transferred between two VMs. LocalSend is more reliable in my case.

    harry315,

    Oh, snapdrop is back? The site has been unreachable for years to me

    Unbeelievable,

    It’s been so unreliable. I switched to PairDrop.net, a fork that works just as well and has better uptime.

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