[bsdubernerd]

syncthing is excellent for sharing also between groups.

I wish it worked better for occasional file sharing (for example to transfer files between phone/pc). I don't want to keep it running in the background - just sucks too much power, and on the phone I never need to keep other stuff synched. But the time it takes for the first connect to happen after starting it can be in the order if minutes on a known network, dozens of minutes if not. Not usable for this purpose.

The android client is also not very well thought out. You cannot "share to syncthing" until it's active, so if you want to put a file for sharing until your network connectivity is up, you can't. You have to start it, share, then shut it down. If you want to do that on an unknown network you didn't whitelist, you have to whitelist the network as well. Kind of pointless. You'd think you can also start it when it prompts you to change the settings, but this also doesn't work.

I ended up disabling all these advanced settings, as they clearly end-up being an hindrance. I just start it manually and quit it, kind of defeating the entire purpose of them.

[inside_out_life]

for fast occasional sharing you have KDEConnect

[bsdubernerd]

I don't see a command-line or daemon backend. Not really comparable, even if I happened to use kde.

[inside_out_life]

Well, it's not comparable, you wanted different use case there's kdeconnect-cli kdeconnect seems daemon like enough to me since it's entirely detached from its myriad UIs