I have been following the development from the beginning and the TL;DR is that the original maintainer deleted his repository, and a new maintainer appeared out of thin air, with the original maintainer’s signing keys. As of now, I would refrain from updating (the last presumed safe version to be found in the post linked below). In the future, there is a new fork from a trusted packager of the GPlay version of Syncthing-fork which might be the way forward, or one might use another client altogether.

More story: The new maintainer says they got the keys from the original maintainer after agreeing to maintain the application instead of the original maintainer so that the original maintainer can retire. However, the alleged “transition” was done so poorly (more like sketchy as all …) that the community has mostly decided to, at least for now, not blindly trust the new maintainer as there is no indication from the original maintainer that such a transition was indeed done, and that nothing malicious is going on. Nothing malicious has been found for now, but everything is sketchy as … Time might help mend the broken trust, but I would say that at this point and with the behaviour of the new maintainer so far, that is somewhat unlikely.

Read more on this in the official Syncthing forum post.

It is definitely worth looking at. I am working with mostly blog posts RSS feeds, but this might come useful one of these days, too. Thank you for the suggestion.

Exactly. Otherwise, DecSync would be perfect (and I even used DecSync in the past).

Aha, I haven’t thought about using the same Linux application. This approach might be worth investigating. Thank you for the idea.

My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?

As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

I especially appreciate that the graph is designed as “Linux” and “Other” instead of “Windows”, maybe “MacOS” and “Other”.

You are mistaking KMail (desktop client by KDE) and K-9 Mail (Android client that is being rebranded into Thunderbird for Android).