Is it a good idea to share files between two Android phones anonymously thru the SimpleX Chat transfer protocol? Or are there easier/better ways?

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      12 months ago

      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?

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        22 months ago

        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.

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          2 months ago

          Interesting, so the devices could be countries apart, hypothetically speaking? I had no idea if so.

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        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.