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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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For #1 you wanna try Magic wormhole. Maybe it's less user-friendly than you need it to be, but it works and there are lots of implementations for different owes (don't know about iOS though).
There's also localsend, which works like a charm.
python -m http.server 8000i would absolutely recommend localsend. it has ios, android and desktop apps and it works flawlessly:
https://localsend.org/
Edit: iirc you need to be in the same network though, it does not have gateway (?) servers like wormhole
That is kind of the problem though. There are many solutions, all with their own pros and cons. But after all these years no universal standard has managed to appear.
You asked for it
https://xkcd.com/927/
I thought it would be https://xkcd.com/949/.
Honestly transferring files over the internet is a solved problem.
https://www.swisstransfer.com/
Have you tried NordVPN meshnet?
Cool stuff. How does this stack up vs syncthing? I have a weekly clip show I'd love to be able to share with friends and family
they both do private file sharing, but their working principle is inherently different: wormhole, localsend, pairdrop etc. send a file once, whereas syncthing aims to sync a folder on 2 or more devices bidirectionally
That sounds better for my use case, right? I could send my show out, and not have to worry about whether they deleted it.
I used to use Pushbullet. Haven't really needed it in a long time since discord came on the scene really. But it did the job really well and was super easy to use.