I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It's not much but I figure every bit helps
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What I pay for:
- Mullvad
- Addy.io
- Tutamail
What I "pay" for (through donations, if that counts):
- The EFF
- Wikipedia
- GrapheneOS
- Asahi Linux
- Python
I don't really subscribe to much, but I'm definitely looking to expand the latter list, so I'll probably start donating to the maintainers of ad blocker filter lists and seek out more organizations fighting the good fight.
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Nebula. There are only a handful of creators on there that I watch regularly, but even then, it's worth it for the price.
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Kagi.com - excellent search engine. Yes, it shouldn't be needed, but in this day and age it clearly is. Excellent slop filter, and it let's you downrank and uprank certain sites in your search results. And I just found out you can see the most popular sites for each category, so it's fast and easy to see which sites probably are and aren't worth having in your results at all. It makes internet search feel like it did 20 years ago.
Namecheap.com - It's where I have my domain names. Mostly because they aren't godaddy.
EDIT: Forgot to mention hetzner.
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Dropout.tv
The only streaming service I won’t pirate.
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my personal economy is hanging by a thread so no expenses that are not strictly necessary.
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Kagi. https://kagi.com
Best search engine I've ever used.
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Privacy.com. I pay 10 bucks a month and never have to expose my debit or credit card numbers, I just use virtual ones. Plus, I get about $10 cash back each month, so really, it pays for itself.
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Kagi Search, it's such a small thing but it radically de-sloppifies your browsing experience
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- Mullvad
- Bitwarden
- Zotero
- Addy.io
- Mailbox.org
- Dropout.tv
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Mullvad
Mailbox.org
I used to pay for a lot more until the last election and I found out how many companies backed fascism. Not with my dollar you wont!
edit: $5 a month for PBS also.
PBS Passport for $5/month is so worth it.
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Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I've happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.
I honestly think that's my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.
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donations to soma.fm, listener supported free music streaming/internet radio out of San Francisco
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Email.
As someone who has been self hosting some stuff and generally aspires to work in IT, it is simply unfeasible to expect services like this for free
Would it cost me less to host such a server divided by x users? Yes
Do I have x users I can sustainably service without burning out? No.
So its either a managed server for like 15€ per month + a bunch of work or a paid email provider, in my case fastmail.
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A seedbox
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Hetzner VPS and their Storage Box, that is, managed Nextcloud instance.
Mailbox.org email service.
bitwarden, wikipedia
also, not really paying for patreon, but I'm using it to pay DJPeachCobbler for his amazing videos on history
Currently, Mullvadvpn.
I've paid for Proton Unlimited but I'm letting that expire and moving to alternatives.
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A few bucks a month for https://piefed.social/
Keep your software evolving and instances running!
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.
There's a lot of stuff I wouldn't mind sending money for, such as WMF, Internet Archives, AO3, and varying creators, and/or, of course, Lemmy, but as I don't like using credit cards and online payments, I'm hindered.
I wonder if there's some card (preferably paper instead of plastic) that I could buy at the store for $10, $20, or like, and use the number as payment. I've thought of sending cash by mail to the WMF, but I'm not sure if they would take it. I sent cash to Miraheze a few years ago, and they said they got it, but they don't seem to have put it in their reports (I hope they used it for Miraheze).
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