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Obsidian Sync has always been presented as a paid add-on, here to provide income for the company building Obsidian and giving it for free.
If they provided a direct BYOS(ync/erver) mechanism, less people would pay for the add-on, which is their source of income.
Instead, they let you use your own sync mechanism by only relying on text files.
I understand why some people could get upset about this, but they've always been transparent :
- no proprietary format ; can migrate at anytime without effort
- free but closed-sourced software
- add-ons for income
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Obsidian Sync has always been presented as a paid add-on, here to provide income for the company building Obsidian and giving it for free.
If they provided a direct BYOS(ync/erver) mechanism, less people would pay for the add-on, which is their source of income.
Instead, they let you use your own sync mechanism by only relying on text files.
I understand why some people could get upset about this, but they've always been transparent :
- no proprietary format ; can migrate at anytime without effort
- free but closed-sourced software
- add-ons for income