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Re:Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one pers... by wongarsu on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:31PM (#14921034)
With the advent of smartphones, most people are running a computer 24/7. But that computer is still either behind a NAT or on a connection where data is precious.

NAT punching is a thing, but it makes the implementation of p2p a lot more complicated.

Re:Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one pers... by seanp2k2 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:16PM (#14921514)
UPnP was supposed to help with this as well before it became a security disaster. There's also stuff like https://github.com/danoctavian/bluntly/blob/master/README.md to do NAT holepunching without a central server (using DHT) but again adoption and the actual ergonomics of usage (npm, the config file, key distribution etc make it fail the "could my grandma use it" test) are not easy enough to make it easy enough for the un-devops'd masses.