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That sounds miserable. This is why apps end up enshittified with forced cloud services.


For apps that use the local system, and after fighting through google's restrictions, syncthing has been a dream between my android, windows + linux systems. I Don't have to think about it.

The restrictions imposed by the platform is why each app needs to have it's own half-implemented sync to it's own platform or some other cloud provider.




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