Hi everyone,

I’m a PhD student in Computer Science researching why people choose to self-host software—what motivates you, what concerns you, and what factors affect your decision-making.

To better understand this, I’ve prepared a short anonymous survey (~10 minutes). Your insights as part of the self-hosting community would be incredibly valuable for this research.

🔗 Survey link: https://survey.lpt.feri.um.si/376953?newtest=Y&lang=en&s=ls

This study is part of my doctoral research at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, conducted under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Lili Nemec Zlatolas, PhD. All responses are anonymous and used strictly for academic purposes.

If you’ve ever self-hosted anything—or even just considered it—I’d really appreciate your input.

Thanks a lot for your time, and feel free to ask me anything about the project (luka.hrgarek@um.si)!

Cheers!

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
      42·
      3 days ago

      As a fellow comp sci graduate (different uni, long time ago) that doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence lol.

      This could actually be a study on phishing lol
      Or a less ethical study on virus propagation
      Or maybe he has just gone rogue and his university hasn’t noticed because they probably don’t actually monitor what students are hosting very closely, as long as it’s not causing problematic network traffic.\

      I doubt it, but I’m still not gonna click a link that someone is asking me to click lol

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        If you’re that vulnerable to shady URLs, you may want to rework your blockers or even spin up a VM. If you’re that venerable you phishing, just don’t give them your numbers.

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Can’t limit yourself to twitter, facebook and google. Hell, I think those sites are the riskier ones.

            • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Those are known evils I know how to deal with, that are popular enough that there are foss tools to handle them.

              But I’m being a bit hyperbolic here. I’m not as paranoid as I’m portraying myself… I just don’t have any motivation to click this particular risky link.