Nostr Web Client

Syncthing, own your keys, own your data.

Android phone app

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

I take a photo on my phone it's on my server & desktop in seconds. Files on my computers are easily accessible from my phone almost instantly. No big tech, totally under my control. It's a great project.

Guy Swann 8mo ago

My experience with syncthing was pretty awful actually. If i deleted something, it deleted from every device, if i added something on desktop, it automatically took storage on my phone. Which were both the opposite of what i wanted. I wanted to leverage storage on my desktop to offload it from my phone, but still have it accessible.

Maybe there were some settings i could change with syncthing, but I lost some files almost immediately because of the destructive sync function without realizing.

It's certainly the closest thing to what I'd love to have however. But there are some major things that are hugely under-appreciated possibilities that it doesn't seem interested in building for.

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Ryan 8mo ago

Yes my use case is keeping files synced between devices, which makes it perfect. I guess it's kind of in the name though.

Gigi 8mo ago

With great power comes great responsibility.

You can absolutely set it up as you describe / want to, using "send only" and/or "receive only" folders.

I've been using it forever and I use it for pretty much anything. Granted, my setup is a bit involved, but it works fantastically well (and I never lost files).

Guy Swann 8mo ago

Interesting I’ll dig back into it and look at how it works more closely. I’d be curious how you use your setup as well.

Maybe we could’ve used syncthing to build what we are doing, but at this point it doesn’t really matter because we’ve solved the file syncing part and it’s about the things we are building alongside it and the UX that I think will set ours apart. There’s just so much complexity in these kinds of tools that seems totally unnecessary. And some hugely missed opportunities as well, imo.

But we will see, I’ll give syncthing another good look though and see what I came up with do with it.