quartz VS silverbullet

As others have pointed out you don't "host" Obsidian - it's just a local collection of markdown files. But if you're asking about a self-hosted alternative to "Obsidian Publish" for creating a knowledgebase that others can answer, I'm Quartz[0], a static-site generator designed to turn Obsidian markdown files into a website. I'm building and it and hosting it on Gitlab Pages at work[1].

[0]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

[1]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/hosting#gitlab-pages

I wonder if https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz was considered for this, though that project is more setup as an open source Obsidian publish replacement than a private PKMS

Shout out to Quartz, which produces a site similar to Obsidian Publish: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

(I would use Obsidian Publish, but it rendered far too slowly on some pages. I do use their excellent sync service though.)

https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ + cloudflare, write in obsidian and publish with a git push

Quartz Docs

I don't understand the negative concerns mentioned by the author.

It's quite easy to sync notes to your mobile device using a free method, or using a cloud service you might already be paying for [4].

The great thing about Obsidian is that the notes itself are just markdown files, so you can use them in any other program. This protects you as a user in case Obsidian enters a enshittification phase. A good alternative is haptic [0], it is very similar to Obsidian but can also be used in the browser. Or LogSeq [1], SilverBullet[2] and just Visual Studio Code also work well. For just editing a single file MarkText[3] is also good.

[0]: https://github.com/chroxify/haptic

[1]: https://logseq.com/

[2]: https://silverbullet.md/

[3]: https://www.marktext.cc/

[4]: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/how-to-sync-obsidian

I'm really surprised I don't see more tech-savvy people talking about SilverBullet (https://silverbullet.md). It's not perfect, but very "hackable" and being actively developed. It's the best self-hostable note taking app I've found so far.

The article link is wrong.

https://siliverbullet.md/

It should be below (without the extra “i”):

https://silverbullet.md/

SilverBullet is a note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset, supporting wiki-style page linking. Its synced mode enables 100% offline operation, keeping a copy of the content in the browser’s local IndexedDB database, syncing back to the server when a network connection is available.

https://silverbullet.md/ it's a nice alternative. It's web based and with a lot of interesting features.