every time I open Spotify more tracks are grayed out, the songs are no longer available... music slowly became the least "file over app" part of my digital life
my teenage self understood this better β nothing beats your own collection of MP3s
All the cloud platforms use your data to train LLMs. Local-first tools are the way to fight back.
Security, defense, finance, healthcare, government...Β the reason high-security orgs use #Obsidian is for the privacy and ownership of their data.
Now every team can be sovereign.
what feature should we remove from #Obsidian?
- something old that no longer serves its purpose
- something that could be a plugin
- something you never use
- ?
think of local-first as a hardening function
local systems should remain operational even when the infrastructure isn't... when the infrastructure comes back online, changes are synced
it's the same reason you might want a battery or generator if the electrical grid goes down
You built a house on someone else's land, and then they tore it down.
Build a house on your own land. From there you can create roads, bridges, tunnels to other people's land.
On the web land is infinite. You can make your own land.
