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The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app
(www.fastcompany.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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Trilium for a database and therefore faster method that is actually foss.
Obsidian is reaching market criticality so I'm expecting enshitification any time now.
You could be right, but I'm not 100% sure of that. From the article:
If they can stick to that, they can avoid going downhill. The main driver for enshittification is big shareholders that want the company to keep growing -- shareholders don't care about stable profitability, they need growth for their ownership stake to increase in value. If Obsidian is profitable now and they're fine with just keeping it that way, they can make it work.
The driver of enshittification is extracting money from your user base and investors alike. Lacking one doesn't stop it.
If I was going to trust obsidian, their code would be fully foss. Since it isn't, there is nothing future proofing my notes in their software. Might as well switch now to something which largely works better and is more feature rich.
It's completely markdown which is future-proof and easily portable to other software