I use YNAB for budgeting. There is a version of a related software you can self-host and you can subscribe to a bank-info-linking service on your own as well, but I don’t want to have to administer something as boring as budgeting.

The support is also pretty good!

The one bad thing is price. About $100 a year :<

Email.

Bunch of open source projects.

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

I give monthly to my Mastodon instance.

Nebula

It supports independent creators and I get to watch Jet Lag a week early

Roll20. I play D&D twice a week, and the paid features (increased storage & dynamic lighting) are absolutely worth it. It’s not even super expensive; just $60/year. Totally worth it for how often I use it!

Steam games/Valve.
I dont know if this counts/its a hot take.
It really depends on the game tbh(some regret some dont)
I appreciate their work on Proton.
And Steam is the only website I can really buy video games from.

• Sourcehut - https://sourcehut.org/
• Fastmail - https://fastmail.com/

Kagi, Soundcloud, Bear.

Bear is so much better than Apple Notes.

• 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’ll pay for Mullvad and Usenet/indexer

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!

Hetzner VPS and their Storage Box, that is, managed Nextcloud instance.

Mailbox.org email service.

is there an online service that eliminates capitalism?

YouTube Premium.

I pay for this, and two other family members pay for two other services. Theirs have each blocked the other 2 of us… So what was once 3 of us buying 3 family plans has become just me doing it. And the second YouTube blocks them, I’m canceling it.

Dreamhost.

More than a decade ago they had a big fuck up where they accidentally charged tons of users multiple times when their contracts weren’t when finished. So one day I woke up and they’d taken a few hundred dollars from my account. That put me in the negatives.

When I called them, they verified my identity, and let me complain a little. (I’m not much of a complainer. But their customer service person was great.) They paid me back the charged amount, and asked how much I’d had in overdraft fees, and paid me that too. And they let my hosting plan date reset at that date for the year-long renewal. So they basically have me like 9 months on top of it.

Mind you, I wasn’t using much at the time. Just a few blogs and a podcast. So it’s not like they’re not making free money off of me. But they handled it so damn well. Didn’t even ask to see a bank statement about my overdraft fees. Just “and how much was that? Got it.” I’m sure it was just a case of cost and smart business… But fuck yeah, reward smart business.