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Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

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this is true, but the problem is that it's really complicated, and not always reliable. Mostly due to NATing within the networks. Firewalls don't help but you can get around those easily enough.

There's no guarantee that you'll get a reliable P2P network connection over a NAT unless one peer isn't NATed. Which is unlikely.

TL;DR we would probably ddos the internet very quickly if we tried at the scale of something like discord.