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Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by psycotica0@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey folks! I know a while back there was a kerfuffle because syncthing-fork for Android went dark, and then a new person showed up and claimed everything was cool and they'd been privately given the keys or something, and people were concerned. I pinned my fdroid version to the at-that-time-current release until we got clarity.

Well, it's been a while and I just noticed I'm still on that old release. So... how'd it turn out? Do we like the new person yet? Is there a promising fork y'all are using? Or is the project dead? I'm sure I could just go look at the repo, but I'm also sure the repo would tell me "yeah, we're all cool" no matter what, so I'm curious what the community feelings are. Have there even been any useful new releases since then?

Thanks!

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Two built for Android, Syncthing-fork and BasicSync, and the latter is meant to be less featured and simpler (or basic! Wow, it's in the name!)

And the third is the desktop service for Linux, Windows, etc. Technically, you can install the Linux one with Termux or similar on Android, but it's a little jankey. It is possible though, as somebody else has already mentioned!

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So... what is the proper way to get syncthing running on Android?

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I personally use Syncthing-Fork. It works well enough for me, but I know a lot of people run it through Termux. Haven't tried it myself though, so unsure what the limitations are. BasicSync is also new to me. There isn't a "proper" way, it just depends on your use case I think!

[–] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's also Syncthing Tray's experimental android interface. You either need to install from apk, or use something like obtanium, but it may be less flaky than Termux.