• nahostdeutschland@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    If they open source all their code, some tech wizard will implement a self hosted obsidian sync server with the same convenience as theirs in a day, and the company will lose their revenue stream

    Obsidian is storing everything as plaintext files. Those convenient selfhosted sync solutions have been out there for years.

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      It’s not just about syncing files. It’s also the fact I can edit stuff on my tablet and see the changes in almost real time on my laptop with Obsidian Sync. I believe most other solutions wouldn’t play nice with such a workflow.

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        With the vault stored on a synchronized cloud drive, Proton/Google/etc the same thing happens.

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          Then that’s a moot point I guess, haha.

          Still a great way to pay for Obsidian to support the development though.

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            Yeah I agree, hopefully it’s a rare non-evil entity that just wants to make a revenue off convenience and quality rather than some batshit shareholder nightmare monetization garbage.

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          I use this as a backup in tandem with the official sync

          And the official one works every time, remotely-save just fails randomly and I need to dig through the logs to see what happened this time