I don’t think this framing is completely accurate. nel0x, one of the people stepping up to maintain a fork, made reasonable requests to researchxxl that were ignored and denied. Basic stuff like “can you join the official syncthing forum”. Trust is incredibly important when you are taking over distribution of an existing app, let alone one that has permissions to your filesystem and can push changes to other devices through NAT/firewalls. Processes to develop trust can be tying your online identity to real life identity, and/or being a visible, contributing member of a community over time. A transparent handover process would also be important. None of those conditions for trust were met and auto installed updates were pushed.

Yeah the whole sequence seems a little weird. That said, I couldn’t find another strong option the last time I looked for an alternative.

BlissOS had a blog post ~2 months ago: https://blog.blissos.org/bliss-updates-2508/

WayDroid and BlissRoms git repos seem very active.

Hopefully BlissOS will return.

This was a lemmy frontend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Food safety recalls. Source/relevance would depend on your country. Not sure that it meets the criteria for “great”, but I found it better than hoping that relevant recalls would make it to a new source I read.