For Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta ( #GAMM ), the old cloud sync-and-share business model wasn’t working anymore.
So what did they do?
They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away. That's the future they've made for us.
@Jermolene hi Jeremy 👋 saw your follow. Nice to e-acquaint :)
I once had this discussion on an - for me - ideal mix of wiki technology and social web. And then took notes into an idea at Social Coding Movement to patiently wait for its time to come. Maybe it interests you in context of #TiddlyWiki ..
A student can't afford to pay the $8 per month for #Obsidian sync, so builds a #FOSS alternative. Then posts to HN and says "I probably violate ToS, so will take down the repo if asked".
Then the Obsidian CEO replies. Explains they aren't VC-funded and the $8 bucks subscription keeps the light on. Applauds the work of the student, points to other open ways that content sync can be handled and gives advice "if you rename, there's no ToS problem". 👍
OT to the question, but regarding the project I'd like to point to a idea I wrote down that may be inspiring.. I called it #Semmy, social knowledge fabrics, which are combining #wiki and #fediverse technology to allow universal / community / personal 'knowledge gardening'.