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
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.
Fleet Commander 🚀
- Fleet: 6–10 devices · 11–20 TB
- Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
- My MVPs: Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Immich, Proxmox VE, nixos-mailserver
Self-Hoster 🏡
- Fleet: 2–3 devices · 1–4 TB
- Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting, Privacy & data ownership
- My MVPs: Actual Budget, Baikal, Memos, Termix, Jellyfin
Getting labelled “AI pioneer” would feel like being called a slur
Reeks of Claude
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
Lol, you suck
Why? Self Hosting AI is fine in my opinion
Where’s the training data from?
If you run Nemotron, from open datasets.
See the dataset table here. There are sections for pretraining and for specific tasks/topics, like STEM, code and such: https://huggingface.co/nvidia
Chinese models are starting to open their pretraining datasets too, albeit slowly.
Okay, but we know most don’t
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.
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.
Wow. Harsh comment.
It’s not like your own post was full of details either
Future Self-Hoster 🌱
- Next up: Jellyfin, Immich
Data Hoarder 💾
- Fleet: 6–10 devices · More than 50 TB
- Motivation: Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
- My MVPs: Immich, PeerTube, Ghost, Actual Budget, Home Assistant
I create videos for YouTube/PeerTube and backup all of the raw footage. The actual storage count is currently 130TB in my main NAS with about 250TB for an offsite cold storage backup (as most of my data doesn’t change much) and on-site live-ish backup. I also have the benefit of being able to get reputable used commercial grade HDDs from work for $10/TB, even right now, it makes it way too easy. Shameless plug of my PeerTube instance: https://joeltube.com/ or @JoelKalich on YouTube.
Data Hoarder 💾
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Fleet: More than 10 devices · More than 50 TB
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Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Learning & experimenting
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My MVPs: Pangolin, Nextcloud, kubernetes, freshrss, Jellyfin
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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.
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
Copyparty is not that known I guess.
Self-Hoster 🏡
- Fleet: 2–3 devices · 1–4 TB
- Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
- My MVPs: Immich, Nextcloud, dawarich, Home Assistant, PocketID
AI Pioneer 🤖
- Fleet: 1 device · 21–50 TB
- Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
- My MVPs: Jellyfin, Navidrome
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I wish something nice happens to you soon - you seem like you need it <3
I’m gonna delete my sniping, you seem nice
Self-Hoster 🏡
- Fleet: 1 device · 1–4 TB
- Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Privacy & data ownership, Cost savings
- My MVPs: Immich, Searxng, Vaultwarden, Radicale, Rclone
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
Data Hoarder 💾
- Fleet: More than 10 devices · More than 50 TB
- Motivation: Learning & experimenting, Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself
