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Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 hours 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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[–] IanTwenty@piefed.social 32 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

F-droid themselves gave an update in April:

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/04/03/twif.html

If you’ve been holding off updating Syncthing-Fork we have two pieces of news for you. First, the original dev continues to collaborate still, we know this was a pain point back then. Second, we’ve just added BasicSync, A simple app for running Syncthing, which just controls Syncthing’s running behaviour as hands off as possible, while the original service hums in the background.

So it seems since the handover things have settled but there is also a new fork which takes a more bare-bones approach.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

This should be top comment

[–] essell@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago

I'm currently running the latest version from F-droid, it's doing what it should do. No red flags I can see.

I know the current owner as much as the previous one so no difference for me.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I kinda held on to the old version for a while too TBH, syncthing-fork had a problem where I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it, so I'd gone back to syncthing, then with all the kerfuffle, I just stayed there.

Some time earlier this year I tentatively upgraded 1 phone and a tablet (it's used as slideshow screensaver...) and it all seems to work ok.

The GUI isn't quite as good as the native webUI, but it's still accessible, so all's good.

There was a change in the syncthing "DB" a while ago, so it might take a while to rescan things if you have a lot of small files, but feel confident to change.

[–] krcr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

I ended up installing Syncthing using Termux following these instructions: https://www.stephenjianu.com/syncthing-android/

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

New one seems fine to me, haven't had any issues with it, haven't been privy to any malicious behavior or past actions that the developers might have done, so personally I find it pretty trustworthy.