• Jank2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    It’s insane how many services sell file synchronisation as a premium feature when syncthing can do it for free and no one seems to use it

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I mean, true…but I don’t think the average user is paying for the service rather than they’re paying for not having to worry about setting up everything needed to get syncthing working.

      I don’t consider myself a luddite in any way, but within five seconds of reading syncthing’s install instructions even I basically just said, “yeah…no.” And I say that AS a nearly 12 year semi-advanced linux user. It’s not that it’s difficult. But difficult enough to not be worth it for the average person.