Well, the alternative ROM scene has been active as long as Android has, so I kinda doubt Google hasn’t thought about whether their software is actually soft and squishy like the name implies, and easy to remove or modify.

I think you might be right, but it’s a little silly to think Google would only install spyware on a tiny fraction of their phones that they somehow had a premonition that GrapheneOS would be installed on.

The user base of Pixel phones is small? What?

I have no idea what you mean. I just had to set this up once on my parents’ phones and now it works all the time, even when they change networks, no port forwarding or any interaction required on their part. Rsync is a cli that requires an existing network connection between two devices, both online, and doesn’t watch files or create a file version history. It is an entirely different tool.

Yeah, it’s odd to me that the syncthing repo makes a point of not officially supporting android, and not making any promises about its continued maintenance. It’s a large part of their user base, but it seems, for some reason, this developer that went dark never spent time to coordinate with or join the core team.

Not as much as the syncthing apps.

The android development always just seemed… off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork. So I switched my family to use termux and termux:boot to run syncthing instead, it works fine.