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What's the drive or motivation behind people running syncthing discovery & relay servers? Do they generally then run their own clients to only use their own se
by pricechild 10y ago
What's the drive or motivation behind people running syncthing discovery & relay servers?
Do they generally then run their own clients to only use their own servers?
With Tor I'm convinced over the "speech should be free, I'm making the world a better place" type argument.
With syncthing I'm incredibly impressed that this optional (but incredibly useful) infrastructure is being run by people for free since it doesn't quite make the world a better place in the same way? It just saves a bunch of other people setting up their own relay/discovery server on a cheap linode/aws instance?
Impressed!
- Nutomic 10y agoI think people just want to help others, and do something useful with their spare resources. I run a relay on a server on my home internet connection, so it doesn't cost me anything.
- 2bluesc 10y ago> I think people just want to help others, and do something useful with their spare resources. I run a relay on a server on my home internet connection, so it doesn't cost me anything. Same. The devs the contribute their time to build syncthing, the least I can do to help their (our?) cause is to spend 10-60 minutes to setup a relay and spend 5 minutes to babysit it every other month.