Your files aren't in Obsidian.
- Your files aren't in Obsidian.
- Obsidian helps you view and edit your knowledgebase, but the files are just readable files on your filesystem.
- That means that you can have confidence you could leave Obsidian if you ever wanted to.
- That credible exit means you don't have to worry about the incentives of Obsidian's creators.
- That makes it an emergent schelling point for an ecosystem.
- No one finds Obsidian's control to be a deal-breaker, because it structurally does not have any.
- Arguably it would have even less if it were open source, but it's already so much smaller compared to cloud-hosted services that it doesn't really matter.
- That makes it a natural centerpoint for everyone to rally around.