Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued

el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Unbecredible@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel the existence of an “export” option in a piece of software is noble in this day and age, and I’m so appreciative of it.

  It says “look, I don’t WANT you to go to my competitor, but I’m not gonna try to hold your data hostage to prevent it.”

  It’s class, as the Scottish would say.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Open source software doesn’t have a reason to lock you in like proprietary software does :)

    More and more proprietary SaaS systems are allowing data exports now, to comply with laws like the GDPR “right to know”. Say what you want about Google and Facebook, but they were the first big companies to start allowing data to be exported before there was any law requiring it - Facebook in 2010 and Google in 2011.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve said for a while that platforms that allow you to easily move make me more comfortable using them, and ironically, more likely to stay around.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did it transfer over your folder setups so you don’t need to set it up manually?

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  • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Awesome! So happy transition is so painless.

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• twotonebax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you for this :)

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• ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ty! Can confirm this worked for me as well.

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