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submitted 11 hours ago by half@lemy.lol to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I'm usually against subscription services, but there are a few I use that I think provide enough value to justify the cost. Are there subscriptions you think are worth the money for you?

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

Bitwarden.

Annual donation to KDE Foundation.

Donations to a number of my podcast hosts.

Premiumize.

[-] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 1 points 36 minutes ago

Real-Debrid. No more paying for compressed streaming services!

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 hours ago
  • meat delivery service. Organic butcher sends me meat everyweek
[-] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago
  • A seed box (Whatbox). I'm paying USD 15/month, and they've actually upgraded my storage and bandwidth twice now without any price increases. I think I've been using that for roughly 10 years now. At this point, it's cheaper than any single streaming service, while allowing me access to basically every TV show and movie ever produced, and I can easily share my library with friends via Plex. Now that I have *aars, it's very little effort to keep up with my favorite shows.
  • Whatever the YouTube music thing is called now. I signed up when it was brand new, and while I occasionally consider going back to piracy for music, it's just not worth the effort for me these days, but I am extremely opposed to ads.
  • Amazon Prime. I should probably cancel, but I don't have a car and definitely utilize the same day delivery quite often.
  • Housing. Do mortgage payments & HOA fees count as subscriptions? Lol. I definitely get a lot of value out of housing, and appreciate the fact that I don't have to wonder if my landlord is going to renew my lease each year.
[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Surprising this thread is so positive so I'll share mine I've gotten downvoted for before:
Discord Nitro.

I use it a lot as I'm active in a bunch of servers. I don't even pay for the expensive one, just the $3/month one and it's TOTALLY worth being able to make emojis of my cat and annoy people with them, here are my favorited and frequently used emojis:

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

Just web hosting.

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago
  • YouTube Premium, because I listen to a ton of music but I also like listening to dorkier deep-dive video channels.
  • Disney+ w/ Hulu because I am a raging Marvel fanboy and like to be able to keep up with shows like Simpsons/Family Guy/Bob's Burgers.
  • Office 365. This is the most likely to get canceled at some point. I used to need Office for work, but now I mostly use the Notes app and Excel on my phone... and the 1 TB of OneDrive storage isn't as great a deal as it once was.
[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 7 points 6 hours ago
  • Tidal ($5.82/month student), like my HiFi music, even if it's indistinguishable on most of the speakers I use
  • Nebula ($2.50/month), mostly the same shit as on YouTube but as-free (without adblock) and usually a bit early access
  • PIA (~$2.33/month), avoids a Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+, Discovery +, Paramount+, you get the gist+ subscription. You had a good thing going but you got greedy and fucked it
  • Recurring donation to Lemmy dev ($5/month), despite any of the devs political views, I appreciate the service and continued support of the software and recognize that dev isn't free,though I do need to sit down and set one up for my instance as well as my mastodon & pixelfed instances.

Some of these are yearly but reduced to monthly for ease of viewing

[-] truxnell@infosec.pub 5 points 6 hours ago

Usenet (Grandfathered real cheap plan) Brewfather (Excelent recipe manager for beer brewing) Netflix + Spotify (Keeps girls at home happy) Domains (for selfhosting) Backblaze B2 & Cloudflare R3 (Backups)

Yeah that's it

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 6 hours ago

Protonmail
Spotify
Motortrend (now Discovery Plus)
Nebula
An small-time streamer
Amazon Prime - planning to cancel

[-] Meltrax@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Hulu. Best collection of shows for me, right now.

Spotify. I listen to music constantly, it's a necessity.

Libro.fm for audiobooks, and supporting my local book store.

My gym membership (lumping Zwift in there too). I exercise a lot, like 15+ hours per week. These are part of my chosen lifestyle.

Opensnow. The only phone app I pay for. It's a weather app but better if you're a skier/snowboarder.

RuneScape. I love OSRS and I enjoy playing in my downtime. I'm an adult, I can do what I want.

Apple Music. It’s just easier than pirating music. You also get Apple Classical which is awesome as classical music can’t be indexed in the same way as regular music.

[-] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 1 points 33 minutes ago

And Atmos! And 4K music videos! Couldn’t agree more.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

The Atlantic. Because of its magazine heritage, there's the perfect number of new articles per day (5 or 10), all top notch journalism and beautifully written. I look forward to reading a few of them each evening.

[-] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

JetBrains IDEs.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago
[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Trade coffee. I enjoy trying new coffees. And it's easy to pause the service if I'm traveling a lot and picking up coffees on my own.

[-] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago

I have a subscription to natural gas I really get a lot out of

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago
[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

I know this is the "wrong answer," but YouTube. I watch it a lot, and mostly on my PS in the evenings. If I only watched it in my phone or PC, I wouldn't bother.

I also pay for Spotify for my mom and I, and ProtonVPN/Mail for myself. Oh, and PS+, which I still think is bullshit. 🙄

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago

It's only a 'wrong answer' because people here downvote on an ideological basis. If it works for you, then it's okay 👍

[-] nbailey@lemmy.ca 42 points 11 hours ago

I donate about $5/month to a bunch of nonprofits that I benefit from.

  • Debian project
  • openbsd project
  • wikimedia foundation
  • EFF
  • Internet Archive

My career wouldn’t exist without these folks, so it’s the least I can do.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I have 1% of my income that goes to open source projects

[-] littlewonder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The most righteous tithing.

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[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, protonmail / drive / vpn, Usenet, bitwarden

That's about all I have.

Although I pirate 90% of what tv and movies we watch, I feel like I pay my fair share for internet stuff.

I might sub to a few local streaming sites from time to time. To catch up on tv.

[-] plz1@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Apple One+

Music, TV, Games, and 50GB storage for $10/month via Verizon.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 40 points 11 hours ago

At the risk of being crucified, YouTube Premium.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

I watch a lot of YouTube videos and hate ads. It's a pretty good value.

I do also have Spotify, because I had it way before YouTube Premium and all my playlists are there. For how much I listen and discover, also a pretty good value.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

I like having no commercials on something by legitimate means, and unlike most streaming services, the content stays there once it's there. For the hours we use it, it's still a hell of a deal.

I adblock and sail the seas, but Premium gives what it promises without any real hassle. We use it way more than we used Netflix or Disney+.

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 8 hours ago

as much as I hate to admit it. amazon. still if my wife passed I would likely not continue it.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

Ground News because I want to see what's going on in news across the media spectrum and they make it a lot easier.

Discord nitro classic because I don't have a better alternative and I get the features I actually need at half the price I'd pay for the normal subscription.

A VPN because none of your goddamn business.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

YouTube premium. Mostly for music but no-ads is nice.

I have the basic iCloud sub but it feels like a scam. I should at least get more storage if I buy more Apple products. If you have two devices your backups get too big for the free storage amount.

I offloaded a bunch of things from iCloud but it becomes a hassle for how cheap their subscription is.

[-] kubok@fedia.io 16 points 11 hours ago

Bring in the downvotes, but Spotify. I listen to music several hours a day, both old and new and it helps me discover lots of new music and even genres. For me personally, that's worth the money.

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[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

A gym membership, my mail account (mailbox.org) and Spotify.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

Dropout.tv

Tons of amazing original content, and very cheap.

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[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Deezer. Last year I listened to 770hrs of music. The majourity of that using the suggestion algorithm. I couldn't buy that many albums and I certainly couldn't name the all the albums I've pulled songs from.

At home I'm an album person. But, in the distractions of everyday life keep blasting singles at me and I'll wait for something to catch my ear.

Also, Deez nutz jokes are so easy.

[-] Platypus@lemmings.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Prime video

[-] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 hours ago

Protonmail, MullvadVPN

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 13 points 11 hours ago

My VPN.

Then I everything else for free.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

Then I everything else for free.

Verbs too?

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Stream.. lol

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 8 hours ago

I think they accidentally a word

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Mullvad VPN!

[-] kitnaht@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

Amazon Prime; I run a business repairing things. I'm small enough that I can't afford to keep everything in stock for various makes/models. Getting it here quickly allows me to repair more machines faster. There are no places to get the parts I need locally.

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