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Subscriptions: The Reasonable and Unreasonable

2023-05-25 22:16:14Z (last updated 2023-10-16 08:55:03Z)

Subscriptions

A "subscription" in this post will be considered something you pay for and get in return for a period of time. This is not about subscribing to email lists or newsletters, those kinds of things.

I've thought about subscriptions more thoroughly during my shower time, and I think I have something more concrete of a reasonable subscription, and an unreasonable subscription.

A reasonable subscription

Here's my current list of services I consider to have reasonable subscriptions:

Sourcehut

Migadu

What both have in common is that they provide a service that makes sense to be paid:

However, Sourcehut and Migadu are actually different services. Sourcehut is a full-fledged software forge, and Migadu is an email service (with lots of knobs and dials).

Now onto the unreasonable subscriptions

Unreasonable subscriptions

Types of subscriptions I don't consider reasonable, not even close:

Heated seats in cars.

Yes, this is just an opinion piece

Hopefully it's pretty clear that this blog post is mainly an opinion piece. I originally thought of it as a quick post on my Fediverse instance, but then it quickly turned into a more serious piece and so I decided to settle on a blog post.

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