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F-droid themselves gave an update in April:
https://f-droid.org/en/2026/04/03/twif.html
So it seems since the handover things have settled but there is also a new fork which takes a more bare-bones approach.
Man, the BasicSync app has a long list of permissions...
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.chiller3.basicsync/
Why does it need to know my Location?
At least it's open source so anyone can look at the code and figure out why it asks for the permissions.
https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BasicSync#permissions
And location isn't a permission granted by default on install (unlike Internet access), the user has to approve of it explicitly.
To know if you are on your home network and use direct lan etc, rather than finding a sync relay in the cloud...something like that.
This is amazing. So what you're saying is that the answer is that there are now three separate syncthing apps, which are all similarly functional and in collaboration with each other?
This should be top comment