I've installed Obsidian a while ago to play with it. This is a reminder that this thing is still on my devices. I'm getting rid of it now. I recall reading the forum posts and all the excuses for not making it open source. Oh, please, say you want to keep it closed source because you're afraid you'll lose money and control. Leave it at that. Don't make up excuses.

I've been using open source alternatives for different purposes for some time.

Obsidian would've been a great choice as open source note taking software. As it is now, it's just one sale, one exploit or one corporate rug pull away from being turned into something else.

Third party audits are meaningless. They were done for one specific version of the code at one point in time. There's literally nothing preventing a malicious version of the software from being shipped. The same goes for plausible deniability on security vulnerabilities in the context of plugins (even with these alleged prompts that the user has to skip on purpose).

They are being roasted in the comments because they give file access to the plugins, now they are bad because they don't give file access. There is no winning lmao