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?

  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    I generally try to avoid subscriptions, but I do have:

    • Proton VPN
    • Dropbox
    • Youtube premium (they’re still charging the student rate years after I graduated)
    • Dropout TV
    • Final Fantasy 14

    I also have a monthly donation set up for MaxFun, since I am a fan of MBMBaM and The Adventure Zone.

      • dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip
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        9 months ago

        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.

        • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          9 months ago

          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.

      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        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.

  • gajahmada@awful.systems
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

    VPN, password manager, I think that’s it?

    Edit for reading comprehension: Mullvad, Dashlane. I’m sold on the former, open to ideas on the latter.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      Huh? Password manager as a paid subscription service?

      I just use the goop between my ears to remember my passwords.

      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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        9 months ago

        You must not be using very strong passwords, then… Or somehow only have a few accounts.

        But given that every site out there requires an account to use these days that sounds dubious

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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          9 months ago

          I memorized π to 50 decimal places and also the alphabet backwards at age 10. Neither are my passwords BTW, but yeah my passwords can be and indeed are cumbersome. But the harder it is to spell, the easier it is for me to remember, oddly enough.

          Once upon a time my password was my Windows 98 product key, 25 otherwise random characters. Yes that password has long since been retired.

          • Konstant@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            I have around 600 entries in my password manager for accounts created since the 2000’s till today. Following best security practices all entries should have different random passwords between them. Pretty sure any normal human being wouldn’t remember them all.

        • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Write a story you will never forget about whatever service. Like ‘when h is Y and won I; I would rather die than use google as a service.’ = “1wouldratYerd1etYanusegoogleasaserv1ce.”

          I used to do that with Buying for bike shops where I had a bunch of accounts all over the place. I kept mental track of the starting key so that I knew my password rotation and history. I kept a hints book, but did not need it.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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            9 months ago

            I could see that working. The great thing about password managers is that your codes are always intensely random and secure. The bad thing is that once you’re into them, it would take several hours of work to make them all into something a human can memorise.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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          9 months ago

          Me too.

          Dihydrogen Oxide + Sodium Ferrocyanide + Ferric Ammonium Sulfate = ❔

          I’m not even a fucking chemist LOL, nor is the answer to that question in any way related to my actual password, but I’ll give you an upvote if you can figure out what color that makes…

    • aloofPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I find that KeePassXC works great for if you don’t mind not being able to sync passwords that easily. You don’t have to pay a subscription for it.

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • soulBit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Try YouTube Revanced if you’re on mobile, removes ads and gives you a bunch of nice features as a bonus

      • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        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.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

  • pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org
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    9 months ago

    Disney+Hulu (only get it for promo deals. I’m on one for $5 a month for a year)

    Anything else, nothing else. I’m only along for the promo-rides. You’ll never find me spending base amount for any streaming service. I might subscribe to Netflix though on their base plan because I’ll just watch it through browsers with ad-block and things will be fine.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    One; Humble Monthly. I’ve had it active for a few years, now I have too many games.

    I have no other Web-based subscriptions.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago
    • domain names
    • e-mail hosting for those domains
    • a virtual private server to host websites
    • cloud storage for backups (in case the house burns down)
    • seedbox
    • claude code

    That looks like a lot when I type it all out. I guess about $50/mo.

  • grindemup@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Recently subscribed to Libro.fm as they seem to have a responsible business model and help me to support authors and bookstores I like even though I can’t read many physical books these days. No complaints so far but I’ll probably unsubscribe once I’ve gotten through the limited amount of audiobooks I’m interested in.