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I don’t mean to join the broken record crew here, but is this better than Syncthing in some way?

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This is for file sharing, while Syncthing is for file synchronization. While you could use Syncthing for file sharing as well (and I have used it for that before), it’s definitely more complicated to use, and requires a bit more setup.

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Excellent distinction! That makes a lot of sense, thank you

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It’s for a completely different purpose. This is more close to AirDrop

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Hm… if I’m reading the README correctly this is a LAN only drop mechanism between a phone and a laptop. Syncthing does that already, albeit with a cumbersome number of features and config for that use case. If that’s not accurate I’m sure you’ll let me know :)

I would love to see this develop an airdrop-esque Bluetooth / PAN phone to phone feature though! Especially if a compatible iOS app were available that would be really slick.

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It looks like an alternative to LocalSend rather than Syncthing

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