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In the past two days, the official Syncthing Android client has been discontinued, making the use of KeePass harder. Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system. And now this?

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A fork of syncthing had been in development and released for a while though, so use of keepass isn't really getting harder unless this developer also pull the plug. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...

I've been using keepass for quite a number of years now. I have my database and a security key. I sync my database with dropbox (because I am too lazy to self-host something like nextcloud) between devices and just manually copy my key on everry device. My key was never synced through the internet.

I hope that's secure enough and works fine for me. I guess syncthing is just smaller and obviously doesn't need a third party?

At least the Play Store version has: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 But isn't https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid... still being kept up-to-date?

I switched to f-droid at least, remember to Backup your config before uninstalling the Play Store version.

It's discontinued, period (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#i...). The fork seems to be fine currently though.

> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system

Details?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994

fwiw i've recently moved to sharing my kpdb using taildrive. The KeePass Android app can open databases from WebDAV

For iOS, Keepassium can use WebDAV as well.

> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system

Again, as Harvey Dent said it…

The reason is the idea of a free operating system and software has been shattered and is now a guest in big corporations and Github.

It still kind of work but it is starting to crack in a few places.

Turns out living the FOSS dream is kind of hard.

Tbh the same struggle affect proprietary software.

It is more about individual developpers/small teams versus large companies.

You have financial gain to show when proprietary software ends. When FOSS ends, you just have the experience. That’s fine for some, know what you’re getting into.

The license doesn't have anything to do with the financial gain. There are plenty of proprietary freeware and OSS devs who sell their apps on the playstore.

Indeed, but it more acute when people don't give anything back, and hobbies don't last forever.

Why? The app can still be built / installed / source forked etc.

That is the FOSS dream.

it's not FOSS or not. Basically, who owns it or who pays for it. People have interest and people need earnings to live. Business is business.

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