That’s completely fair. I wasn’t trying to say they were collecting data for nefarious purposes, but from the little I know of startups taking investor money if the investors are seeing it that way you may end up there anyways. There are definitely advantages to staying small and completely owning your thing.
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If you haven’t already seen this one, a post you might appreciate:
https://copingmechanism.com/2021/are-automatic-backlinks-useful/
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I’ve found Backlinks to be revelatory. I understand the search angle, but it’s the subconscious linking which is brilliant. This is the way your brain works when you sleep or mull things over, it builds links to things.
Now the graph, when you have more than 50 notes it becomes impenetrable.
Agreed, which is why I love Obsidian’s local graph so much!
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I hear you. I do find frictionless back-linking appealing, and useful. And, to be fair, Jack does say that he also finds back-links useful in some cases. Just not all. Which, in my mind, resonated in the context of Quorm’s comment…