Still closed source.
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alphabethunter@lemmy.world 2 months agoNothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits.
RiQuY@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
What’s the catch?
rbits@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If you want to sync your notes between devices, Obsidian Sync is $48 a year. But since it’s all just markdown files anyway, you could just use dropbox to sync them anyway.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
dam thats a lot for a sync. I guess its supporting the project.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s $4 a month for 1GB of storage, not insane
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“…until we have a large enough userbase to start monetizing and enshittifying…”
Toribor@corndog.social 2 months ago
At least if/when that happens all your files are in markdown, owned and controlled by you so migrating to another tool is pretty easy.
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 months ago
While that’s technically possible, it’s very difficult, and in my opinion, highly unlikely.
priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They have a plenty large enough user base and have not done so. You’re literally commenting this on a post of them doing the exact opposite. The fear mongering is insane.
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was nothing personal, more of an off-handed commentary on how things usually end up going after 20 years of seeing literally every site/service I’ve used and most of the companies I once considered “the good ones” eventually get shittier in some way when the business side puts on the squeeze.
The one exception I can think of is Wikipedia.
But I don’t have any reason to think badly of these folks, their current owners seem to have their hearts in the right place and indeed have made decisions that avoid lockin and assure users, and I hope they are another Wikipedia that will endure the tides of enshittification.
But I will never again assume that such hopes will remain the reality, even in this case. This is a snapshot in time. Owners change, priorities change, pricing models change, file formats change, common sense statements of basic decency like “don’t be evil” get rescinded, scrappy fun websites created by free-thinkers become tools of fascist oppression.
That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve your business and support currently. Just make sure your off-ramp options remain acceptable if things begin to change.