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?

  • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    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

  • sparkles@piefed.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 days 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.

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    2·
    3 days 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.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • gajahmada@awful.systems
    2·
    3 days 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.

  • sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io
    2·
    3 days ago

    Despite our complete homelab setup my wife still pays for a few streaming services. Couldn’t be more than $45. Still to much. Have you guys heard Linux unplugged’s IPTV episode they just published? Shit is wild.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    One. Usenet access.

    I have a lifetime subscription to an NZB indexing site I paid for many years ago, that was well worth the money. You never know if they’ll stick around, though.

    (I refuse to name names, because the minute you say what service you use, someone tells you to try something else, or how dumb you are for using that site, when this other site… blah, blah, blah.)

    I have a lifetime subscription to Plex, that I got many years ago, when Plex was good. I haven’t used Plex in over five years.

    Until recently, I was getting Netflix through T-Mobile. It was “free” when I signed up, but then they started passing on the price increases. I dropped it because I so rarely used it.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 days 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.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 days 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.

    • soulBit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      4 days 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
        1·
        3 days 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.

      • dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip
        5·
        4 days 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
          3·
          4 days 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
        5·
        4 days 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.

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
    2·
    3 days ago

    For my own personal use, I pay one domain at about 12$/year.

    Then there’s stuff my job pays.