My small data point:

A few days ago I wanted my obsidian notes on a linux machine. Well, the files are synced via iCloud Drive (no Linux), so I asked it to solve it across my devices. It used Syncthing which has been working great.

Then yesterday obsidian desktop stopped loading (probably a bug in a plugin?). I’ve always wanted to do my notes in the browser, so it forked https://files.md and set it up on my home server pointed at my sync folder.

I was of the mindset that I’d not want to self host my day to day tooling, happy to pay, but it seems having the ability to run open source tools where I can say “just fix it” is too convenient to ignore.

It amazes me how even smart, capable, well paid IT people give away their most private data "because it's cheaper".

They can see the hidden cost of data loss risk.

It's also cheaper in terms of time.

Not everyone sees things the same!

But having your own data kept private is priceless.

> Not everyone sees things the same!

False. People just see things wrongly. Self-hosting is the best option here.

That doesn't disprove the initial claim at all. You don't even address it. Even if they saw it wrongly, that still doesn't mean they see things the same.

> I won't be hosting my own notes solution.

Why not? Notes are incredibly private data. One of the top priority items to NOT host in a cloud.

Trilium is incredible.

Consider it.

Also AGI does not exist and never will.