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Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by pr3dr49 on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:31PM (#45697661)
Give syncthing a go.
Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by seabrookmx on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:36PM (#45698309)
+1 for Syncthing. I've been running it for years, after my student discount for Dropbox expired (Google drive and OneDrive were just getting traction at the time).

The mobile experience last I tried was pretty rough though. I don't really need my files on my phone and I have a web interface on my home server I can use to grab them in a pinch, but it's something to keep in mind.

Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by misterdata on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:15PM (#45698632)
If you’re on iOS, try my (FOSS) app for Syncthing: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain
Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by seabrookmx on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:29PM (#45701169)
Android unfortunately.

Cool app though!

Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by seraphine on Saturday October 25, 2025 @03:55AM (#45702097)
Unfortunately not available in my country (Malaysia)
Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by benhurmarcel on Saturday October 25, 2025 @12:28PM (#45705090)
Why did you restrict it by country? I’m in the EU and can’t install it.
Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by misterdata on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:33PM (#45738751)
You are most likely in France: your government does not allow publishing an app containing cryptography (in this case, Golang's crypto implementations and a package used by Syncthing - only using iOS libs should be fine) without authorization (which can only be obtained through French forms, at which point I'd want a French lawyer to be involved, so no).

You could of course build the app yourself from source.

Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by blamestross on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:56PM (#45698482)
Syncthing is easily the most effective FOSS I actively use. It just works and runs on everything.
Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive by gkmcd on Friday October 24, 2025 @06:49PM (#45699889)
Syncthing is great, but no good for mobile devices if you want to store and access lot of large files - it syncs everything, and last I checked, the features to prevent that were depreciated.