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by troad 39 days ago
> the enshittification

A strong reason to stick to using Obsidian as just a Markdown editor and not get sucked into the plugin ecosystem at all. If your Obsidian vault is just a folder of Markdown files, you're ready to leave at a moment's notice.

If I ever go in on some plugin ecosystem, it'll be FOSS, non-commercial, and have been around long enough to drink. (Emacs?) Haven't felt the need; a Markdown vault for reference resources + pen & paper for ephemera suffices for me.

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If I just use obsidian as a markdown editor without plugins, I have no need for obsidian.
It has a nice and fully-featured editor, it syncs reliably between devices and it has a mobile app for notes on the go. I don't see why I wouldn't use it.

(What a weird false dichotomy? As if the only two choices were either to extract every possible pound of flesh from something, or not use it at all?)