I’m betting most people here come from a background of storing your most private data on Apple, Google or Evernote servers (some of it’s probably still there) and use social media knowing that your behavior is being built into a surveillance advertising profile on you …
Yes… but ‘some’ of us don’t. Instead, ‘some’ of us go to great lengths to limit any exposure without our consent, and we also refuse being backed into a corner by arguments such as ‘yeah but you still use Facebook’, ‘privacy is dead’, ‘what do you have to hide?’ and similar.
I don’t see how is the ‘some of you’ argument relevant to the original one. ‘Some’ of us are future rapists and pedophiles, but ‘some’ of us are also the future geniuses and cancer treatment inventors. You never know. But I don’t think privacy-minded Obsidian users are a minority. Besides this, it’s 2021. Strong privacy-by-default should be a given for all users, including non-technical ones, by now.
But yes, I also prefer Obsidian going forward as strongly as it did till now, no doubt about that. And I recognise that keeping it closed-source (or at least some key parts of it) is a better way to ensure financial fortitude.
A compromise might be discovered, we’ll see. 