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Damn, I am so jaded by all the bad news that I saw this title and thought they are going to scrap plugins for something AI-related. They are not! It's a plugin community page! Looks interesting.
The bad news is that this is a reaction to the recent incident where a Obsidian plugin contained malware and it became obvious that their plugin system is quite unsafe
I've been using LogSeq for a while, but there's been a lot of positive news about Obsidian. I'll have to check it out.
I think it is usually signaled pretty far ahead honestly when companies go rotten. Maybe it's because I just generally choose foss lately but it seems obvious when you look at earlier choices for things like drm or licensing policies
sadly obsidian isn't foss. i still like it though.
and yeah with the recent bambulab controversy in the 3d printing community it was noticeable years earlier if you just paid attention. but paying attention takes active effort too. being a discerning consumer/user/creator is difficult.
It's not FOSS, but it uses markdown which is open, so even if Obsidian went down the path of enshitification, you could still (in theory) move your content over to an alternative. I know, I know, plugins, non-standard etc. etc..
I think Obsidian's pages Just Work in Logseq, to the point you can use both programs concurrently on the same files
Yeah, this makes me trust them even though it is closed source. The data is mine and that is a big deal to the leadership there. I would never use it otherwise. And to me, that makes me want to even want to support their ecosystem and pay for actual services. It's truly baffling sometimes how short-sighted most corps are these days. And in an age where alternatives are becoming both more numerous and often even better than their counterparts. Like Linux in general. It used to be a varying experience depending on your hardware. Even my laptop just got the correct drivers for buttons and brightness, fans and shit even though the makers made no effort at all. I'm actually optimistic about the entire cyberspace
Definitely a bait title.