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> What's the benefit of Syncthing?

Not needing a service/server is probably the main benefit, compared to stuff like Dropbox or Nextcloud.

I am also curious.

I took the time to configure Dropbox from the command line on my headless Linode, and while it's not foolproof -- which is at this point probably on me, since I don't have it running as a proper init or whatever -- it's so far Good Enough, and as such I'm not super convinced going to a secondary sync tool is useful to me.

(I mean, since I already rely on Dropbox to manage sync of a broader set of files between 3 other computers + my iOS devices.)

I use it for everything that I don't need to share with other people, because it scales 'for free' with the size of my data (my music library, for instance), and because I can use it across many different devices but selectively sync different 'types' of things to different devices (e.g., a large photo collection doesn't need to be on my mobile phone).