Link: https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F3f725509-852b-4ab4-ab75-d4af6cbf98f0.jpeg

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.

I always find it quite hard to answer "favorite" apps as some infrastructure critical self hosted apps aren't as sexy as others which sit front & centre so I feel they often don't seem to get as much credit or attention (such as NGinX/DuckDNS compared to Immich/Jellyfin etc)

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.

What the hell is this AI slop?

I'm just cross-posting. I don't think it's slop at all, it was made with AI though, pretty sure.

Done! Nice UI.

Self-Hoster 🏡

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
• My MVPs: matrix (synapse), element web, casdoor, Plex, znc

This isn't AI slop. This has been going on for a few years. They have last year's results available.

It sucks that recently, if something is well formatted, we have to stop to question if its just LLM slop.

Completed! Looking forward to seeing the results

Them that don't pull in half a Gigabyte in dependencies. That's all zombie code that waits to be exploited.

People don't call things slop just by looking because they are well formatted, it is because they all look the same. The styling was very obviously done with the aid of a LLM.