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Universities, the Debian Foundation, Nvidia, the ccc, hell even Microsoft run magic-wormhole relays... the only thing new here is the subscription and the hipster gui client.

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This is classic critique. Dropbox was criticized in the same way when it was announced years ago.

Magic Wormhole is cool (I just learned about it! Thanks! :)), but most people don't use nor care about the command line, and are probably afraid of it.

I am more in critique of the shameless subscription for services like this. US$25 /user/month for what? Certainly not the traffic.

I think that might be billed on the sender vs the receiver. So if you're a solo creative person sharing stuff with clients, this can be one way of doing that. Also potentially useful for small businesses without an enterprise file sharing solution.

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