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For strictly local use, Google's Nearby share is technically FOSS but the documentation is basically non-existent and a proper Linux implementation is not here yet. Alternatives aren't hard to find though, with Mint's Warpinator or KDE Connect having worked well for me.
For non-local use (everything out of Bluetooth range), you almost have to trust a third party and it really depends on your use case. Want to send your friend a file or host pictures of your birthday for multiple people to download? For the former magic wormhole works great, for the later you could almost spin up a nextcloud or similar (personally I like https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser ). Want to regularly send files from device 1 to device 2? Now classic sync solutions like syncthing become really viable.
If everything else fails, FTP always has your back
Probably not what you are asking for, but if you would like to host on your own server, there is https://github.com/timvisee/send which is a fork of Firefox's Send.
You get a web interface where you can drag and drop files. It uploads the files to your own server and you will get a link to share them.