Have you tried syncthing-fork? You can synchronize folders across the internet with it between all sorts of devices, including android. No middlemen required since it's peer to peer.
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Why go through someone's service when you could go direct?
Isn't this just to share stuff in your local network between your os and phone?
Its file sharing feature works between any supported devices, including phone-to-phone, and yes, it is intended for connections across a local network.
Thanks but I was searching for file sharing on the web.
I think you mean across the internet, but I get your point. You might want to state that in your post.
If the file doesn't exceed 2 GB, you can use this : https://lufi.ethibox.fr/ Files are encrypted and cannot be seen by the owner of the website and the share can only go up to 30 days. It is recommended by Framasoft, the ones behind peertube.
Interesting alternative, thanks. SimpleX is the only one, as far as I know, allowing chronology since it has a chat and all, you can probably use also matrix protocol the same way but it require an account.
Phones aren't in the same local network
are they nearby?
edit: ignore that, i saw your other comment : Thanks but I was searching for file sharing on the web.
It's fine.
If sending multiple files it's a pain in the ass. Can't select multiple and send at once, one at a time
Have you tried with folders or zip?
Sure that works fine
Yeah I'm test it and it's just annoying for multiple files since you can't share folders, you can probably send .zip/similar but you need to compress files first.
edit: But in general it works pretty good.
Magic wormhole? Never used it myself personally.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.leastauthority.destiny/
If you have them as a contact already in SimpleX, then why not.
I also considered wormhole protocol but clients are very minimal, you don't have chronology and you can't access your old uploaded files like in SimpleX.
For across the web I use syncthing.
I also love Synching but I was searching for something across the internet.
Syncthing does work across the internet. It uses nat hole punching to achieve this. Unless your network is behind cgnat / double nat I believe. Me and my buddies use it all the time.
Wait... I thought the whole premise of Syncthing is that the syncing devices need to be on the same Wi-Fi network. How do you configure it to not need this?
You use their servers to find your device and then exchange directly with it. They have discovery servers that link you when you don't have a fixed ip address.
Or you can host your own personal discovery server for that.
i didn't have to configure it to do anything. paired the devices manually like normal while being on different networks. syncthing figures out the rest.
Interesting, so the devices could be countries apart, hypothetically speaking? I had no idea if so.