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As the title what is the best file sharing service than can be self-hostable? Need encryption

EDIT : To be more precise I want something as an alternative to Wetransfer not Google Drive, something to get a link to dl files

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm desperate to find a REAL alternative to wetransfer. One that sends an e-mail to the recipient with a link when the file is ready to download.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

No, not something that send an email but can give you a link to download the file

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Came here to say this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but no sorry, I don't want a peer to peer service but temporarily upload files to my server and then serve them to users after

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

to be sure that I (the server admin) cannot see the content of the files

temporarily upload files to my server and then serve them to users after

Heh.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

There is a fork of Firefox Send

https://github.com/timvisee/send

If you already selfhost Bitwarden/Vaultwarden, you can use Bitwarden Send too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Gonna look it up

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I loved FFSend. When it died, I ended up standing up a GOKAPI server, as it was the closest alternative I could find at the time: https://github.com/Forceu/Gokapi

Definitely not as nice as FFSend though. I may have to give that fork a try instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

This works really well. The readme says "local network" at the beginning, but it works across the internet by sharing a link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Ohh I'm going to recheck it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean with encryption? Does it need to be transport encrypted, end to end encrypted or is encryption at rest (when the server is offline) good enough?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

End to end to be sure that I (the server admin) cannot see the content of the files

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

File sharing between devices you own or file sharing between you and other people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I've edit the post

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

+1 for Syncthing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

^ this I selfhost nextcloud behind cloudflare tunnels. Super easy to set up and ssl is handled by cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Letting Cloudflare MIM your Nextcloud instance doesn't seem private or secure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I do it too. I guess I trust cloudflare more than the public Internet but when I have more money I'll do it right

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Best of luck with encryption on there. Everyone I know tell me NOT to use nextclouds encryption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's supposed to be extremely buggy as I've heard. Can't comment much more on that, except fpr this snippet. Maybe it's fixed now, maybe even for long time, but I wouldn't trust it just like that after what I've heard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I recently checked up on the status of the built in E2EE in NC when deciding what sort of encryption I wanted for data at rest on a self-hosted system. People are still complaining about data loss and horrible bugs. I've been burned before and stay well away from that half-baked implementation. I just use Cryptomator instead.

On the other hand NC supports AI implementation, there's machine learning that sets EVERY SINGLE MAIL to important in the mail app and the ActivitiyPub based Nextcloud Social have almost worked for many years so that's nice.