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?
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.
Logseq sync, need it for work, and its only £3.74 (5 cows for the Americans). Tried proton VPN plus as well, too expensive for me being £8.38, but its fine because their free tier is generous and I can do video calls with plus aswell. Food is also a good subscription, you can find food shops everywhere with great variety, but the price of the overall spend is higher, but if you buy high volume low cost food you can combat this price increase; some people like to spend extra and add alcohol to their subscription, but i don’t see the appeal unless its liquor shots like Apple sour or Baileys, because they taste good.
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.
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:
I use nitro for emotes, everything else is just them annoying the fuck out of me.
This is a better ad for Nitro than I’ve ever seen from Discord haha.
Signal Lemmy Pi-hole Bitwarden YouTube + a whole raft of creators
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.
Spotify. I started paying because I got fed up with shuffling my mp3 files from one place to another.
80% of the time I’m not angry at them. This day and age that is a high score. Hey Spotify: if you want to improve your score fix your recommendations during Eurovision Song Contest. There is nothing in my playlists that suggests that I’ll even be remotely interested.
VPN
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.
I’ve been using Trade coffee for the last 2 years or so. The subscription basically amounts to free shipping.
The selection is good, and I get something new every time I order without having to go to multiple websites to see who has what in stock that I’d like.
I don’t think their recommendations are that great, but the filter options make it easy to find something I am interested in.
Same. And the coffee is really really good
Mullvad.
Mullvad VPN!
Protonmail
Spotify
Motortrend (now Discovery Plus)
Nebula
An small-time streamer
Amazon Prime - planning to cancelBring 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.
I feel the same. I like not having commercials in my music and being able to listen to a wide variety.
Also offline mode and list syncing. I would die on long flights if I didn’t have music to listen to and my tastes change frequently.
Same, I think it’s worth it. I rarely listen to the radio, so I get to discover new music with them. And the offline play saves on data when I’m just going around the corner or something.
I don’t subscribe to much as I try to avoid subscriptions
Bit warden subbed as soon as last pass went to shit Duolingo been studying Spanish every day Crunchyroll anime High-dive anime not on Crunchyroll
