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  1. Kinda astonishing that there’s still no open source reimplementation of the old #BTSync​/​#ResilioSync applications/protocol.

    There’s lots of private sync solutions… but nothing that allows for easy, “anonymous”, selective, large dataset distribution. “anonymous” as in “I don’t know who is downloading”. (trackerless, ad-hoc, BitTorrent)

    And since I can already hear people typing… “but #SyncThing…”.
    NO, it does *not* cover that use-case, and explicitly doesn’t want to.

  2. Kinda astonishing that there’s still no open source reimplementation of the old #BTSync​/​#ResilioSync applications/protocol.

    There’s lots of private sync solutions… but nothing that allows for easy, “anonymous”, selective, large dataset distribution. “anonymous” as in “I don’t know who is downloading”. (trackerless, ad-hoc, BitTorrent)

    And since I can already hear people typing… “but #SyncThing…”.
    NO, it does *not* cover that use-case, and explicitly doesn’t want to.

  3. Kinda astonishing that there’s still no open source reimplementation of the old #BTSync​/​#ResilioSync applications/protocol.

    There’s lots of private sync solutions… but nothing that allows for easy, “anonymous”, selective, large dataset distribution. “anonymous” as in “I don’t know who is downloading”. (trackerless, ad-hoc, BitTorrent)

    And since I can already hear people typing… “but #SyncThing…”.
    NO, it does *not* cover that use-case, and explicitly doesn’t want to.

  4. Kinda astonishing that there’s still no open source reimplementation of the old #BTSync​/​#ResilioSync applications/protocol.

    There’s lots of private sync solutions… but nothing that allows for easy, “anonymous”, selective, large dataset distribution. “anonymous” as in “I don’t know who is downloading”. (trackerless, ad-hoc, BitTorrent)

    And since I can already hear people typing… “but #SyncThing…”.
    NO, it does *not* cover that use-case, and explicitly doesn’t want to.

  5. Kinda astonishing that there’s still no open source reimplementation of the old #BTSync​/​#ResilioSync applications/protocol.

    There’s lots of private sync solutions… but nothing that allows for easy, “anonymous”, selective, large dataset distribution. “anonymous” as in “I don’t know who is downloading”. (trackerless, ad-hoc, BitTorrent)

    And since I can already hear people typing… “but #SyncThing…”.
    NO, it does *not* cover that use-case, and explicitly doesn’t want to.