For me, I have a hard time with subscription based services, because I feel like I am giving up some of my freedom, or my earnings to benefit someone I never had an opportunity to interact with. If they have an admin running the community that never offers to interact with me, then I am doubly suspicious where all the money is going.

So I mostly focus on writing posts I enjoy sharing, and manually curating posts that I feel enriched my time. I follow enough quality accounts now that I can earn more money by manually curating those people than I do by posting anything myself. Still, a good combination of both seems to help instill a good sense of trust and teamwork between me and my friends I made here.

Steem Basic Income (SBI) and Dustsweeper I do enjoy quite a bit. I think they do a good job of rewarding back more than you have to give, and it doesn't require any responsibility other than continue to be active once in a while to earn your money back.