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.

I give monthly to my Mastodon instance.

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?

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.

Email.

Bunch of open source projects.

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!

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 :<

Hetzner for my VPS Mullvad for my privacy

Nebula

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

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)

mullvad vpn.

i be sailing them seas with no abandon.

Proton for email Signal for messaging (donations) Bitwarden for passwords Currently trailing Kagi for search after the comments on this post Random donations to my instance

Torguard.com VPN. Going on 8 years of use, many terabytes of data transfer, no complaints.

SomaFM

Backblaze B2

I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It’s not much but I figure every bit helps