Overview here

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

The new repo has two releases in it now. GitHub is silently redirecting to the new repo, even in Obtainium, meaning it's possible that if you had this previously installed via Obtainium and updated now, you may have apks installed that may or may not contain the changes in the repo.

This is a mess. I deleted the repo from Obtainium (luckily I don't auto install updates) and will wait to see what happens over the next few months. Might just save my notes in a network share instead of using syncthing from my phone. Idk, notes are all that I was using it for.

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was just reading through the syncthing forum about this. https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661 Nearly everyone in that thread is suspicious about this. No notification from Catfriend. New dev has no history.

For now, I going back to what I did before Syncthing - a USB-C thumb drive and copy files manually.

Syncthing and Syncthing-Fork have been removed from my devices.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, thats helpful additional context

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Glad to be of service

[–] Pssk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could also use syncthing through termux

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I decided on LocalSend instead. Doesn't auto transfer but is very easy to use and fast. Side of Burritos has a video about it.