Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing • Hacker News Board

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by api » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

Wait... you're telling me it's 2025 and we can finally conveniently send files?

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by abcd_f » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

mbrumlow wrote: post #10

So airdrop… Not sure why this needs to be a service. Or why data needs to go through their servers.

It appears that the data is relayed as a fallback, if there's no p2p connection possible. This is a classic transfer model for mediated transfers.

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

mbrumlow wrote: post #10

So airdrop… Not sure why this needs to be a service. Or why data needs to go through their servers.

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Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by givemeethekeys » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:47 PM UTC

mbrumlow wrote: post #10

So airdrop… Not sure why this needs to be a service. Or why data needs to go through their servers.

It looks like this lets you share files with people using a different operating system than MacOS. Does AirDrop let you do that?

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by bestouff » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

lagniappe wrote: post #8

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

Hey isn't this the same famous reply as the one the Dropbox founder got here in HN ?

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by subarctic » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

givemeethekeys wrote: post #14

mbrumlow wrote: post #10

So airdrop… Not sure why this needs to be a service. Or why data needs to go through their servers.

It looks like this lets you share files with people using a different operating system than MacOS. Does AirDrop let you do that?

His point is about it being a service vs just a peer to peer app

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by dhruvmittal » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

poisonborz wrote: post #7

Free open source alternative: https://pairdrop.net

Magic Wormhole [1] also exists.

[1] https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by supportengineer » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

It's like YouSendIt!

Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

bestouff wrote: post #15

lagniappe wrote: post #8

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

Hey isn't this the same famous reply as the one the Dropbox founder got here in HN ?

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Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing

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Post by jcalx » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

lagniappe wrote: post #8

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

Context, for the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

It worked out the first time!