Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Obsidian Sync
  • YouTube Premium
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Lemmy… “liberal”

    Yeah, I should’ve said “leftist” or “socialist.”

    I don’t really fit in with Lemmy politically, I’m just here because Reddit has gone too far with tracking and monetization. I would’ve been willing to pay for Reddit if they were privacy-friendly, but that ship has sailed.

    TLDR

    This looks fantastic! I just watched a video on YouTube (about the Belgian far right party) and it was high quality without all the rage baiting. Thanks!

    their discovery algorithm has gotten so good

    Eh, I found it just devolves into the popular nonsense I try to avoid with clickbait titles and rage bait style. For privacy reasons, I completely disabled watch history and whatnot, and suggestions are now even worse (no surprise there).

    I’m trying to completely replace YouTube and Google services generally as a rejection of their data collection (hence the “privacy advocacy” section), so I’m looking for an 80% solution. I can hopefully fill in the rest on Odysee and Rumble (looks like LPL is there), but those are filled with far-right nonsense, and Peertube seems kinda dead, so I’ll need a solid base and only look for a handful of replacements.

    Anyway, thanks! You’ve given a lot of great options, so I’ll try it out and see if I can finally drop YouTube, at least for subscribed content (YouTube is still king for finding specific music). I don’t really care about bonus content, I just want something like YouTube that doesn’t have ads, tracking, and clickbait, and I’m willing to pay.

    • ZagorathEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Another platform that I haven’t yet signed up for, but probably will before too long, is Dropout. Created by the former head of the YouTube channel CollegeHumor after the old owners collapsed at the hands of a private equity firm, it now hosts a whole range of comedy content, from game shows (Um, Actually is mostly available on YouTube, and is excellent), to sketch comedy (clips from Game Changer and Make Some Noise are available as YT Shorts—I’ve seen them called a spiritual successor to Who’s Line Is It Anyway, especially after Wayne Grady guest starred in an episode), and their D&D show Dimension 20. It’s entirely in that “misc entertainment” category, and all from one single studio, but it’s shockingly good for that.