After MindGeek started complying with the Louisiana law earlier this year, the company said traffic dropped by 80 percent.

It’s literally in the linked article lol

Do you mean that you use a VNC connection to access your server UI? Or is there a way to host Obsidian as a true web app?

Does this work similar to Syncthing where it syncs the markdown files to the local file system? If so, that’s definitely helpful, but I’m trying to avoid saving/storing my personal notes on my work laptop. I’d rather access them through a web interface and avoid local storage (in certain use cases). Another example is where people can’t install custom software on work computers, so it’s helpful to have a non-Obsidian way to edit the files for those times.

Obsidian is great except for the times when you can’t sync your notes to a local file system (like on a work computer). Does anyone know of a self-hosted web app that’s effective for reading/editing the markdown files?

I use Home Assistant as well, but Apple HomeKit (and the new Matter protocol) can also be cloudless I think.