Zero for me. No Netflix or anything here, I’m not into subscription based services.
But if you do have subscription based services, what might be the better ones out there?
iCloud, Spotify family, Bitwarden password manager
Criterion channel, and proton VPN+email
I used to have Spotify but they kept increasing the price and the app was so bloated and frustrating to use just trying to listen to my local music. Ripped all the songs with zotify and now I use musicolet as my player
I have Spotify premium but I’m not sure I can count it because they haven’t charged me anything in over 6 years. Only reason I haven’t canceled; I already ain’t giving them any money 🤷♂️
Umm, winning!!!
What dark magic is this? 🤔
IDK, but I hope they never notice.
We shall never speak of your blessings again.
Happy New Beer! 🍺
For me I’m pretty sure it was that my credit card expired and I didn’t update the expiry date (was never prompted to).
Damn I shouldn’t have cancelled mine. They had stopped charging me for a few months for whatever reason and I actually didn’t realize until I went to cancel. I didn’t think I’d be able to get away with it for that long.
Anna’s Archive, VPN, Search Engine, Email Host, Server Hosting, I also do automated scheduled donations to FOSS and Fediverse projects if that counts.
I’d much rather pay for a service that doesn’t log or share my data with advertisers than use a free service which treats me as a product to sell to advertisers. Sometimes that means self hosting and sometimes self hosting is cheaper or easier to scale or do offsite, even if simply collocating.
Is Anna’s Archive something people pay for?
I do, because I support them
Paying not only supports the archive but also allows you to download a ton of books at full speed
I split a YouTube sub with my ex for my daughter. I use it for music anyway. Other than that I paid for Netflix last summer and canceled. I paid for a year of crunchyroll but I won’t renew it. TBH I never subscribe I just buy one service for like 6 months or a year and move on.
Dropout, mainly for dimension 20.
I still want more Play It By Ear.
Someone mentioned Dropout earlier, may I ask what that is/for?
Video streaming service with 100% original content. It’s what remains of Collegehumor. The content is great, they don’t block password sharing, share profits with the cast and crew, and release a large amount of content for free on social media platforms.
They’re the only streaming service I am cool with paying for and even if you’re not a fan of all the content, they are absolutely worth the support IMO.
There is not a single thing, other than some episodes of dimension 20, I haven’t watched. Including kingpin Katie!
Kinda wish that drag queen sleepover thing got more traction though. But Parlour room has become one of my favorite things of all time! Wish I had some IRL friends to play tt games with.
It’s an improv comedy group that has their own streaming service, formerly known as CollegeHumor. Dropout has become fairly popular in the last couple years for a number of reasons, but basically they’re funny and all-around decent folks.
I’m so jealous of you getting to experience game changer for the first time!
Don’t Cry was a masterpiece.
That and the recent episode where they gave Jacob $50 grand, both bright a tear to my cold dead heart!
Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.
I pay like 10/year for my domain name.
I also have Spotify (I know it’s a shit service but I don’t have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).
I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.
so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.
GoDaddy. AirVPN, Deezer, LibroFM.
People I should donate to in no particular order: Proxmox. Linux Mint. Homarr. Jellyfin. Jellyseerr. Audiobookshelf. Romm. Immich. Paperless. Mealie. Vikunja. Pihole. NginxProxyManager. Syncthing. Bitwarden. Joplin. Searxing. Hardcover. LibroFM Downloader. Radarr. Sonarr. LazyLibrarian. Bookshelf. Cleanuparr. Huntarr. Gluetun. Prowlarr. Qbittorrent. Bitmagnet. Whisparr. DosBox. Retroarch. Tailscale. DietPi. Dockge. Community-Scripts. All of Firebog’s ticked lists. Firebog. NGO-sang’s Tracker list. Lemmynsfw (I donated last year though). I wanna setup SelfBridge and a YT-dlp. I have a Tdarr set up and ready to turn on when I get to <1Tb
40+ services I use and don’t pay for… LiberaPay when? I’m a fucking monster. £1pcm/service is prohibitively expensive for me right now. Do I donate £5 to one each month, then they’re waiting 2 years for the next £5? Do I try £.5pcm/service? Then they’re not all on LiberaPay, some don’t want donations at all. Immich (for example) want me to buy the thing £100, I have 7 users so far. Do I follow immich and do 2 £100/year donations, so a 20 year cycle? Honestly, 2*£100 is probably the most comfortable, feels like an impact, not too mentally taxing to do, it’s enough to be worth donating directly.
That’s hoping that when I donate to BitMagnet (for example), they donate to their dependancies, like Postgress (for example). Else the number is probably hundreds.
Definitely gonna get normie-shamed by some of you guys, but we’ve got:
Spotify premium (family logins shared with sister and parents, so I’m sort of stuck with it)
Amazon Prime (all our photos are in their Unlimited photo storage - it just works and links in with our firestick seamlessly so that the fam can actually look back at the photos easily)
Express VPN (got it for privacy, stayed for the porn which is blocked in the UK)
Audible (forgot to cancel)
YouTube premium (have actually just cancelled now that I can use the Albanian VPN trick)
Starlink (hate Elon, but live rurally so no choice)
Finally, IPTV which is illegal and £80 a year but gives me everything.
I love a forgot to cancel subscription . Solidarity ha
Spotify: I switched my whole family to Tidal. It’s cheaper for a family of four, you can migrate your playlists and such, music quality is better, and they aren’t a shitty company. Plus one free month to try it before they bill you.
I had to find a different podcast app though. That was a pain.
Try YouTube Revanced if you’re on mobile, removes ads and gives you a bunch of nice features as a bonus
Man, they love people like you.
Out of curiosity, what would you recommend?
Spotify costs very little and is installed in 3 separate households, but if you’ve an alternative then I’d delighted to hear it.
Amazon prime photos just works. I’ve a Synology NAS that I was using with Plex but it’s clunky AF. We’ve got firesticks simply to access our IPTV, but it also means we can view those photos easily.
Starlink - there’s literally no alternative where I live.
YouTube - had premium, but through an Indian address so cost me £2.99 per month.
Audible - no justification, just a subscription to a service we used.
I don’t think you need to justify your purchases to anyone.
And I think most of the answer is probably who frequent [email protected] so if you’re interested take a look at that
Meh, probably. I’ve also got a couple of Alexa’s. Honestly couldn’t give a fuck at this point.
Idk how much expressVPN costs, but there are almost certainly cheaper options
Any suggestions? ExpressVPN works pretty well on all my devices, but I’m open to alternatives
seconding mullvad, windscribe is what I personally use as its very cheap but mullvad is better
Mullvad is a great VPN option
Apparently theres is some Lemmy x Dropout overlap but there is no community exist here currently.
My subscription:
Dropout.
Various domain, mostly 10$ a year.
Purely mail. For well, email.
Kagi. Search engine.
Mangaplus. For weekly Shueisha manga.Planning to get backblaze for backup.
Domain names and webhosting, the Proton suite, Ente (photos), and Qobuz (music). Basically all the stuff that lets me get away from companies like Google and have some modicum of privacy.
Qobus looks interesting, thanks for sharing
When I was looking for Spotify alternatives, they were the ones who paid the artists the most, so I went with them.
And they are based in Europe.
Qobuz is good and has the best morals (as far as companies go) for music streaming. Only reason I opted out was because it doesn’t have all the weird indie music I like to listen to but I’m hoping if I wait a year or two that will be better.
I very recently started supporting the dude who does fossify and the dude who does the AI Horde / db0 (the latter of which I made my mental health skills building comm on). I’m trying to support more free stuff these days.
I have a bunch but I don’t think I’d recommend any of them, necessarily. Mostly they are familiar names and you either want them or don’t. I do pay for Bit Warden. And I would like to anti-recommend Nord VPN for shitty practices. I donate monthly to my Lemmy server.
That’s about it.
