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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like I'll have to setup BasicSync. I still don't trust Syncthing-Fork. The way things went down don't give me any confidence it could happen again but worse e.g the dev introduces something like a "fuck zionists" patch that wipes everything if you're on an isralean IP. Then I'd be putting myself in danger for using a VPN or TOR exit node in Israel. Not taking that risk.

Thanks for the writeup.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Source for that?
I don't like that a software with access to my files has logic for this behavior.
I use syncthing as a backup-tool so it would be, let's say bad if it should happen.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That commenter was using an example of something very bad that could happen if the fork got handed off to someone else again but worse, not something that actually happened

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whoops. Thanks for pointing it out. Read it as a fact not as an example.