alt Hacker NewsBecause then someone might fork it into a new product with their own sync service.
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Obsidian has an entire plugin category for syncing, and recommended alternatives to the official Sync service.
https://community.obsidian.md/search?type=plugin&categories=...
And I remember that did happen at one point: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync
The mechanism that allowed that was patched as a vulnerability
I doubt that. There are competing sync extensions in their extension store. If you do not want to use extensions, you can sync the vault folder with any syncing app for free.
The whole data structure is designed to make this easy.
I chose Syncthing for this purpose, and it is free and works flawlessly. You can even trivially disable their native sync, as it comes as an internal extension.
Mozilla could have avoided so much drama with Pocket, VPN, AI features, etc., if they just were as transparent and liberal with critical first-party services as Obsidian is.
This is definitely it. I set it up myself with git private repos because my more-work to more-cost balance weighs heavily towards more-work. It would be trivial to fork it, set up some sync backend, and charge $4 a month to undercut them.
And honestly, they've been very good stewards of the project thus far, I'm happy with the status quo.