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But… what’s the point of hosting a World cup if you’re not willing to invite the world? Or do we now go down the road of hosting the world cup (which I don’t care about) in five different countries everytime, so the hosts can only invite the people “they like”?

Agreed, but I give Google a better chance with Google, Android & Gemini to actualy make an “addicting” chatbot.

At least they’re honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.

Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We’re still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.

As a skeptic, I’m not worried about myself, but I’m scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.

They can try to force me adding that for my single user instance, but I don’t think they can:

• Force the developers of GoToSocial to add this feature
• And force me to add that to my instance (I don’t live in the EU no US)

Do do this, they need to enforce cryptographically verifiable age verification everywhere. It would require forcing big instances to only cooperate with small instances that poof they do age verification and if you’re selfhosting then the hoster needed to verify you? Not really possible.

Of course big applications and servers could choose to add age-verification freely to avoid scrutiny. Won’t be cheered on in the Fedi I’m sure.

I’m more worried about the proposed OS-level verification, which will be harder to circumvent if you’re not using a FOSS OS. Especially since I can imagine a global effort on this by US, EU, China.

Edit: hypotecially, if we ask how could it be added, a zero-knowledge proof that you’re >18, without revealing anything else, would be the way to go.

You even overwrite previously existing front-matters. From just looking at a note. This is a fucking no-go! Luckily I was able to revert all the unwanted changes HelixNotes applied to my vault.

This is a warning for everyone who wants to try HelixNotes with an existing vault.

If you want to try HelixNotes, be aware it overwrites the front-matter of notes you open (view only, no edit needed).

Hi ArkHost,

Obsidian user here. I tried HelixNotes for a couple of minutes and here’s my feedback:

• I like that you support compatibility/converting Obsidian vaults. I wish you would at least support Obsidian’s wiki links directly. I won’t convert all my notes just to try if I like your editor.
• View mode doesn’t seem to really do anything. Ah wait, seems like I can only click links in view mode (no visual distinction between normal editor and view-mode apart from the tiny view mode badge). But that opens the linked note in my default .md viewer, not the HelixEditor itself. IMO view-mode should be visually distinct and also work together with source-mode (so I can edit in source mode and then click view-mode to see the rendered note).
• I like the simple look, although the UI is not as polished compared to Obsidian.
• I need Math support ($ ... $).
• I hate that you update notes front-matter even if I just view and not edit them. Only change notes I am editing myself. I just had a look and now you changed the format of my notes. Re front-matter it would also be good if that behavior is documented somewhere.
• I closed my vault (clicked on the folder icon in the top right) and wanted to reopen it, but got an error: Failed to acquire LockFile: LockBusy.
• The graph view opened but stayed empty.

Feel free to use my feedback however you want, or don’t. Personally, there’s more than one deal-breaker for me to switch from Obsidian to HelixNotes, without even considering the nice-to-have features added by all the plug-ins. I recommend you to listen to people who are more likely to use your editor than me, or are already using it. I hope my comment doesn’t come over too negatively. I tried to give honest feedback why personally I won’t use HelixNotes anytime soon. I wish you all the best.