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[โ€“] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

emailing his photos to his friends

that's sometimes difficult, e.g. when you have thousands of photos, and emails have a size limit of 20 MB per email. using matrix chat or sth is also not ideal since the other side will have to download images one-by-one. sending a zip file might work, but the matrix protocol might have a size limit for attachments.

an FTP server might work. also consider that you want to store the images somewhere, not just send them once. how do you do that with messaging services?

Matrix file limits are server-dependent, usually enforced for the uploader only. If you run a server you can set it to several gigabytes lol

Alteernatively, use a tool designed for file transfer: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570256bb3b2