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Imgur - $2/mo to get rid of ads. Ads are what causes the app to be crashy. No ads, no crashes. It's absolutely worth it to me for that price.

My DNS root. Good mail hosting.

Namecheap

Proton for mail hosting and VPN

Used to do a couple podcast subs and let them expire. Should pay for more, this thread might be the social pressure to throw $10 at like 8 different things.

• Ad free music, especially if most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free content creation, especially is most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free games, especially if most of it….
• lichess.org
• Activity pub development and hosting
• ability to pay my bills online
• central platforms to buy goods and services that I want (clothing, furniture, car parts, etc) mostly eBay nowadays as I try not to support Amazon and had a terrible experience on Mercari
• ad free podcasts that like to listen to
• direct from manufacturer car…..soon-ish

• Netcup (I switched from hetzner a few months ago because I found a better deal)
• Infomaniak for domain names
• Purelymail, a really cheap email host (I don't want to deal with self-hosting it)
• Exoscale as an object storage provider, which I use for Lemmy and self-hosted Ente (which I chose over Immich because it supports S3 as a storage option, I don't have enough storage on my netcup server or my homelab for image backups and I'd rather not deal with the stress of a potential loss of data caused by drive failure or something) for my family
• Threema (not really a service because it's a one time purchase, but now that we're shilling I thought I'd include it), which I also managed to get my family to buy.

I give monthly to my Mastodon instance.

Crunchyroll is fairly inexpensive for how much I use it. Been keeping up with current running seasons a lot more than when I yarhar'd everything (though I keep a small stash of my favorites on one hard drive).

I've gladly donated to some of my favorite YouTubers (Legends of Avantris, MinMaxedRPG, and others).

"Happily" rules out most streaming services I do pay for, but Nebula is still a valid answer.

A Hetzner box i use for offloading hobby crap calculations to.

Various patreons and patreon-like things for people who make things I enjoy and/or strongly believe should exist: Garbage Brain University, Octavius King, Pivot To AI, Master Hellish, and a few more but I forget.

Joplin cloud. I use the shit out of it and it's a great project.

Bit warden & Nabu Casa. Both great & they support really good OS projects

I knowww it's shit on, and I hate that the price went up. But I can't get rid of Spotify. I don't love it, but it's definitely the best music app I've used. I do love that it shows local concerts based on the music I listen to.

Chess.com. Its totally worth it for the game review which is the part of it I'd consider a "service", but there's other good stuff in there if you like to play.

I don't actually pay for this, because the free tier is good enough for my personal needs, but Tailscale is amazing and has totally changed my relationship with self-hosting and web services.

I know that you can roll your own VPN WAN using wireguard or whatever, but honestly Tailscale makes it pretty foolproof, and that's allowed me to access all of my self-hosted stuff from anywhere with minimal screwing around. The first time I logged into my Jellyfin and Finamp from outside the house, I was pretty much hooked. If I could easily and safely host public game servers for my wider group of friends I would be even more into it and would definitely pay for a higher tier.

My hyperlocal newspaper.

• Dropout.tv 
• VPN + email
• Music streaming

• My VPS providers. Ramnode and Contabo.
• Kagi Search
• Wikipedia (donation)
• Newsgroup Ninja and NZBGeek.
• Bitwarden
• Tossable Digits - hold and virtually use my US number while I live abroad

Dr demento show. For 15.00 a month you get new and all old episodes.

This man has earned my money for all the years of entertainment and laughs he has provided.

Star trekkin across the universe!

Services only or one time purchase apps too?

Real-debrid

My domain names and web/email server hosting.

Not having to worry about all the horrors one is subjected to when they depend on a free service for online presence, email, etc. is worth a great deal to me. Any free service can disappear or kick you off at a whim leaving you with nothing, social media sites and apps come and go (and/or enshittify) while as a consumer of a paid service you not only have a quality of service beyond freebies (privacy, no ads, what I want to put online is exactly what goes online unadulterated, people who want to find or contact me can always do so at my own site on my own terms) you also have consumer protections if things go wrong.

While I'm not self-hosting my web stuff on my own hardware, the host I use is a small business owned by an old friend and fellow hacker which means I'm not at the mercy of some faceless corporation's TOS either. My host and I see eye-to-eye on what's appropriate for me to put out there via her machinery, and she's also not extrajudicially sharing my private crap with fascist government forces like the big tech monoliths and most free services do.

Various Patreons and also Dropout. I also regularly donate to the xkit lady for her work making Tumblr usable. Oh! and Dominion.games.

There are three that I've happily subscribed to for years:

Adguard Kagi Mega

I use all three daily and they all more than make up for their price.

ProBoxTV is a YouTube channel with boxing. 4 shows in the next month. Next one is in a few hours. It’s free but you can donate to their channel.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkSAbh3aRg

Kagi, Soundcloud, Bear.

Bear is so much better than Apple Notes.

None.

https://online-go.com/

To get AI analysis on my games.

Online collectives like riseup and disroot, providing privacy focused services, are doing the lords work. I gladly support them.

VPN

Proton and Signal. I think that's it.