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What do you have against paying? If I'm not paying, I'm the product...and I don't want my private journal to be sold.
by istingray 5y ago
What do you have against paying? If I'm not paying, I'm the product...and I don't want my private journal to be sold.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoThe FOSS community will disagree with you there.
- istingray 5y agoGood point. Does it change if I say that you "pay" with FOSS with your time?
- hammyhavoc 5y agoNo, because that's also another sweeping statement. There is plenty of FOSS that simply just works, has objectively excellent UX/UI, and meets a user's needs.
- istingray 5y agoWell said, appreciate you taking the time to get me up to speed. See some of my other comments where I'm grappling with frustrations around FOSS and a desire to pay to make things smoother.
- smoldesu 5y agoI don't want my knowledge and information to be gated behind a subscription fee. I'd rather just host it all myself, maximize redundancy and then forget about it. The system has worked fine for the past 2 years, and I have a hard time believing that anyone here is selling my private journal.
- istingray 5y agoWhat do you think about Standard Notes' self-hosting options then?
- smoldesu 5y agoI don't think about it much, because I can't install extensions or themes to it. Meanwhile, Obsidian Notes has no problem letting me do anything I want for free, which makes it a better self-hosted notes client for my use-case.
- istingray 5y agoAh! I had not realized the self-hosted option didn't allow extensions and themes.
- istingray 5y agoCircling back I had not realized SN disables themes and extensions on the self-hosted version. I could see them providing some proprietary themes/extensions if they want but self hosting just seems so hard just let people do what they want and let people like me pay for it.