Selfhosted @lemmy.world ᗪᗩᗰᑎ @lemmy.ml 5 mo. ago

Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever

www.usememos.com Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever

A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.

Check out the live demo at https://demo.usememos.com/

Self-hosting @slrpnk.net ᗪᗩᗰᑎ @lemmy.ml 5 mo. ago

Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever

www.usememos.com /

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I thought I’d give this a shot, but the metrics/data collection flag was turned on by default and when I added a command to my docker-compose to turn them off, it was ignored. Then, I created an account and looked for a way to turn them off in the settings and there was none. You expect people interested in self-hosting OSS to be cool with sending data out of their network every time the server is started, a memo is created, a comment is created, a webhook is dispatched, a resource or a user is created?! Also, the metrics are collected by a 3rd party with their own ToS that could change at any time?

Holy hell, hard pass. I’d rather use a piece of paper.
- Saved me the effort, thanks. Although, couldn't you just block the container from talking outside your network? I can't see why I'd need a memo app (server) to have access to the internet.
  
  See my adjacent comment
- It would appear that blocking app.posthog.com on the host/network resolves this. But I got the parameter to work, too, as per https://www.usememos.com/docs/advanced-settings/metrics use '--metric=false' and bam, no DNS queries!
  
  Yeah, I’d assumed it would respect the —metric=false flag when building with docker run, but docker-compose is ostensibly supported and easier to work with. I was able to successfully change other configuration options (such as setting the db to use MySQL instead of the default SQLite) using the docker-compose ‘command’ block, but the metric flag specifically was ignored. It’s entirely possible that this is a bug and not an intentional attempt to hoover up user data. Either way, data collection should be opt-in by default (by law, imo).
  
  Sorry to revive an older topic, but that link is dead and I dug around but could not find the —metric=false flag on the website. I hope this is still the case. I love the app as a way to capture a stream of my mind but it freaks me out a little that it’s sending data elsewhere.
Aww, I love their icon!
- ngl, at first glance I thought it was a ghost boy singing into a headset ^^;
how does this compare with silverbullet?

can i link pages? do queries?
- Ooh silverbullet looks nice too, thanks. Link for the lazy: https://silverbullet.md/
So this is like a public notebook?
- "public" to registered users, it seems (but by default, memos are private; and the ability to set them as publicly can be disabled by the admin)
Nice! But I'm currently using Obsidian for note taking

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