Shill your favorite product and service. MLMs and corporate representatives need not comment.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    I used to happily pay for YouTube premium. Back in 2008 someone told me he uses YT to listen to music and I was like “You silly man, the youtubes are fore watching not listening.” Some time in the early 2010s I realized he was right. I can’t get through a work day without some nice ambient something or other on in the background. It also used to be a phenominal source of info about any sort of topic you care to name, with videos posted by actual humans who were interested in those topics. It fed my sundry ADHD hyperfixations very well.

    Now I still pay for it, but I’m not sure it’s worth the money anymore between them foisting shorts onto us and the torrent of AI slop. The other day I wanted to watch videos on Australian lungfish and was met with AI voiceover after AI voiceover. It’s made me wonder if I should quit, but where else am I going to find 8 hours of server room ambience or an hour long video of a dog chewing on a bone?

  • westingham@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    4 days ago

    YouTube Premium. No ads and the creators I watch get paid more.

    Yes, I’m aware of all the apps out there that give you the Premium perks without actually paying for it. Here’s the thing: the VAST majority of my watching is done on my TV via an Apple TV and I really CBA to go through all the hoops to make any of those apps work with my setup.

    I don’t watch any other streaming services and I don’t watch cable / network TV. I’m okay paying for Premium to get the best experience.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 days ago

      I pay for that too but I wouldn’t say I’m HAPPY about paying for it. Because I remember when YouTube used to be free and had no ads.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      I don’t like it, but YouTube family is by far the most bang for buck for our family in hours watched vs price.

      And not having to watch any shitty ass ads on any YouTube client wherever I log in is amazing.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Lena@gregtech.eu
    6·
    4 days ago
    • 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.
  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    3 days ago

    My email provider (and domains), Bitwarden and Obsidian.

    Less happy:
    Spotify and Spotify Premium (If I could I’d get rid of the YT music part)

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    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 :<

  • mdalin@infosec.pub
    6·
    4 days ago

    Mealime.

    Meal planning app. Has a database of hundreds of easy to make, healthy, tasty recipes. Tell it how many people you want to cook for, for how many days. It builds a whole meal plan, adjusts the quantities of all the recipies, builds a shopping list for you, and will even forward the list to Instacart for you if you’re into that.

    It also builds the meal plan based on reducing food waste, so if you have one recipe that uses half an onion, it will automatically find another recipe that uses the other half. You can also define ingredients you don’t like/allergic to and it will avoid recipes that use those.

    MASSIVELY increased the amount of at-home cooking I do by getting rid of all the boring/annoying parts. Kinda like Blue Apron, but you just go buy your own groceries. Best $2 a month I spend.