I’m not affiliated with this in any way but saw it posted at the other place & thought fellow Lemmyzens might like to take a look

Hi everyone,

Like in previous years, I’m running a survey about self-hosting. The focus is on your favorite self-hosted apps, but there are plenty of other (optional) questions too. The top five app lists are free response fields, you don’t have to select the suggestions.

Link to take the survey:

https://survey.deployn.de/s/self-host-2026

Last year’s results

More info:

  • The survey is anonymous. Like last year, results will be published in aggregated form. I’m currently planning to publish them in December.

  • It takes about 10-25 minutes.

  • Some of you asked for more questions in the comments. I added a lot at first, then realized it took 45 minutes to fill out properly. So I threw some out again, but there are still quite a few. The survey now has a core section that mainly covers the MVPs (your 5 favorite apps), and you can switch on other modules if you want. Almost every question is optional and can be skipped. If you answer everything at a reasonable pace, it takes around 20 minutes.

  • The proprietary survey tool caused new problems every year, so last year I switched to HeyForm while the survey was already running. That wasn’t ideal for my purposes either, so this year the survey runs on a new app. It should also make entering your apps faster.

  • It’s still easier to fill out on a desktop computer.

Thank you in advance for participating.

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Fleet Commander 🚀

    • Fleet: More than 10 devices · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself, Learning & experimenting
    • My MVPs: BookStack, Plex, Home Assistant, music Assistant, Grafana
  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    13 days ago

    It’s a nice survey, but often forgets that you can also self-host in the cloud, and doesn’t even consider that rented root-servers exist.

  • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 11–20 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Home Assistant, Navidrome, Jellyfin
  • praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    AI Pioneer 🤖

    • Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
    • My MVPs: Gitea, Grafana, InfluxDB, LibreChat, Ollama
              • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                11 days ago

                Admittedly, no, but this is slowly improving. Stepfun published their SFT dataset, smaller labs are publishing their datasets for task specific tunes. I believe there was another Chinese lab that published bulk pretraining data, but I can’t find it in my history at the moment.

                And, notably, these comparatively tiny labs generally aren’t scraping the internet so abusively like OpenAI/Meta. They don’t need as much. Going by statements in their papers, they tend to use existing archives of web data, buy commercial data, or (more recently) generate a lot synthetic data.

          • loppwn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            12 days ago

            Ok thanks for telling me your reasoning. But… when i use a model which was built on pirated data and i am a pirate myself - i think its fine.

  • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I wanted to do the survey, but at some point the ui is barely understandable (#10 or so) and I gave up shortly after. And that’s from a nerd.

  • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    12 days ago

    Data Hoarder 💾

    • Fleet: 1 device · More than 50 TB
    • Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Customization & full control
    • My MVPs: Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, Immich
  • Branny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    13 days ago

    AI Pioneer 🤖

    • Fleet: 1 device · 21–50 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
    • My MVPs: Jellyfin, Navidrome
  • bitwyze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    12 days ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Cost savings, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Home Assistant, Pi-hole, WireGuard, tandoor
  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    12 days ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 4–5 devices · 11–20 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Radicale, Baikal, OPNSense, Home Assistant, AdGuard Home

  • drive_desaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    12 days ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
    • My MVPs: Pi-hole, Immich, Ollama, LubeLogger
  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
    0·
    13 days ago

    Homelab Veteran ⚡

    • Fleet: 1 device · 11–20 TB
    • Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Learning & experimenting
    • My MVPs: Nextcloud, Traefik, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Audiobookshelf
  • champagne_laugh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    12 days ago

    Self-Hoster 🏡

    • Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
    • Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
    • My MVPs: Immich, Home Assistant, Paperless-ngx, Vaultwarden, Navidrome