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Earlier this week I unsubscribed from #1Password and moved to #Bitwarden... due to their donation of 300k to DHH's #Omarchy.

I made sure to let them know about the reason, so that hopefully the company would notice those kind of decisions have an impact.

Day one I got messages from their AI system.

But today I got a response by a real human at 1Password (or so it appears).

If you are curious about the company's official response to the backlash, check out the screenshot (and/or #AltText)

#alttext #bitwarden #1Password #omarchy
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Lorenzo Millucci

the response may be human generated but it seems the same for many people who contact them nicolalosito.it/2026/09/03/1pa…

1password replied to my disappointment

Like I wrote, september has started with my disappointment with 1password. As I was expecting, I got a reply to my email at the support team. Here’s what they have told me. Hello Nicola, Than…
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Der Giga

@lmillucci Yes, this is how crisis PR works and it is not a bad thing.
Expecting a handcrafted letter from customer support is main character syndrom.

On the plus side: This letter exists, so there were some teams involved and it is itself a sign that they are reacting.
For whatever consequence...
@_elena

@Elena Rossini 🌈 @Lorenzo Millucci
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Mr. V

@leeloo I understood that because they were just "supporting developer and open-source communities" they conveniently "ignored" the implications of funding a project that has clear political position. They think they can fund "just" hosting infrastructure without also helping the people behind the project push their own agendas, and that is what I ment with the usual "don't mix politics with <X>" B.S.
(Sorry, English is not my native language)
@Leeloo
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derptron

@mrv404 @leeloo Omarchy isn't infrastructure. Fucking point blank.

That was the worst part of this bullshit. They think I'm going to believe that fucking line??? It makes me mad they think I'm that stupid.

Omarchy is the cool kid cult leader front they are using to pull more hacker expertise into their fucking fascism machine. "[NeoVim] looks cool as fuck."

This response proved it in my mind. Omarchy isn't fucking infrastructure in any way shape or form.

@Leeloo @Mr. V
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.

@fiend4coffee Proton Pass is very good. I went there from Bitwarden to get EU software instead of US software.
And now KeepassXC, to have full control over where my password files are. It takes some time to figure it out but I like it.

The browser extension for Proton Pass is superior to the Bitwarden one in my not so humble opinion.

@_elena

@Elena Rossini 🌈 @stu
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.

Exactly. That's why I moved out too.
>dir
Volume in drive C is Windows

Directory of C:\Users\paul\Nextcloud\Overal

03/09/2026 09:22 <DIR> .
01/09/2026 09:16 <DIR> MaiVolt
03/09/2026 07:56 99.157 Passwords.kdbx
1 File(s) 99.157 bytes

(Yes, sorry, windows. Work laptop)

I know exactly where my passwords are.

@fiend4coffee

@stu
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Scott Murray

@paulk @fiend4coffee I recently moved from 1P to Proton Pass but here on fedi someone shared that Proton is equally associated with far right politics. 🙁 So now I’m back to my quest for self-hosted, family-sharing capable password manager. (People love Keepass but it’s not set up for proper sharing… better for single user.)

I did all this research a few months ago into all the password managers and who was behind them and their features… I should write it down somewhere now that everyone is once again shopping around. 😅

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @stu
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Scott Murray

@fiend4coffee @paulk This is the Proton news for reference:

reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments…

I was almost in on Bitwarden but as I recall they use AWS on the backend (so does 1P) and I am also trying to extricate from AWS services (not realistic, I know). I explored self-hosting Bitwarden/Vaultwarden but then you are reliant on Bitwarden the company to keep producing a good client (which you’re using for free). Just as I was testing it, this happened:

fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwa…

And that shadiness turned me off.

Right now I like the looks of @aliasvault and @passbolt, both of which can be self-hosted. I’m waiting for each to mature a bit as they don’t quite have all the features I need personally.

The good news is there are more options in this space than a year ago! It’s not just 1P and LastPass and Bitwarden. 😁

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @passbolt @stu @aliasvault
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Caden

@scott @fiend4coffee @paulk @aliasvault @passbolt Keyguard is an open source BitWarden client that's unaffiliated with the company. I haven't tried their desktop version, but the Android app works great. I believe using Keyguard/Vaultwarden would leave you with zero dependence on BitWarden the company, but I'm not certain since I haven't made the move to Vaultwarden yet
@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @Scott Murray @passbolt @stu @AliasVault
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LisPi

@fiend4coffee @hub @paulk There are rather deep historical ties in the USA between the tech sector and the authoritarian parts of the government there.

It is utterly unsurprising to see them all jump at the call of fascists.

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @Hubert Figuière @stu
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Jason Bowen 🇺🇦

@fiend4coffee @paulk I've been a very happy Bitwarden user for nearly a decade. I switched over after LastPass was bought by LogMeIn.

I use `rbw` on the commandline. github.com/doy/rbw

GitHub - doy/rbw: unofficial bitwarden cli

unofficial bitwarden cli. Contribute to doy/rbw development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @stu
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derptron

@rupert @paulk @jbowen @fiend4coffee There is also an open source server for self hosting called "vaultwarden". It supposedly has pretty much all the bells and whistles just focused on smaller deployments. Kinda authorized and supported by Bitwarden with some of the same developers.

There are lots of other choices as well.

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @Rupert V/ @Jason Bowen 🇺🇦 @stu
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derptron

@jbowen @fiend4coffee @paulk If you are fine with the command line you could have a look at 'pass' or 'passage'.

The former is based on GPG, the latter is based on AGE.

These are shell scripts that leverage git and file encryption to implement a self-hosted, distributed password store.

This is 'passage'. If you go to it you can see the link to 'pass'.

github.com/FiloSottile/passage

GitHub - FiloSottile/passage: A fork of password-store (www.passwordstore.org) that uses age (age-encryption.org) as backend.

A fork of password-store (https://www.passwordstore.org) that uses age (https://age-encryption.org) as backend. - FiloSottile/passage
GitHub
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Jason Bowen 🇺🇦

@crazyeddie
I'm a fan of `pass` (and zx2c4/Jason Donenfeld in general). We used `pass` at $(JOB-2) for our small admin team.

If Bitwarden hadn't been available when I was looking to escape LastPass it's quite likely I would have ended up on `pass`, but at this point I don't have a compelling enough reason to migrate password managers again.

@fiend4coffee @paulk @_elena

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @Elena Rossini 🌈 @derptron @stu
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derptron

@jbowen @fiend4coffee @paulk The big win for pass/passage for me is that I can update my passwords when I'm not connected. In fact, I don't ever have to use anyone's service or set up my own server. Last I looked bitwarden doesn't do this and nor do any of the other service based pw managers.

It's not user friendly though. Your devices can also get out of sync.

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @Jason Bowen 🇺🇦 @stu
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Laura

@fiend4coffee @paulk Which one? It tends to be very subjective, you might like another.

For example, personally, I don't like KeePassXC, but I like KeePass 2. For others, it's the opposite, and non-XC KeePass 1 plus other third-party implementations are available for download, too. I think it's a massive plus of the KeePasses that I'm not tied to one program using its own file format that nothing else uses, and especially not a mothership in The Cloud® that holds my passwords hostage.

@Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @stu
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jmelesky

To me, that reads as “we didn’t expect backlash from this and don’t yet know what we’ll do about it in the future”, which means: 1- telling them why worked (they know there’s backlash), and 2- if more people tell them why they’ll probably have to figure out whether or how to change things (which requires various people to listen to customer support as an org, etc, which is hard).

Which is (and i say this positively, not nihilistically) the best kind of response i would expect from a company of that size.

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Henryk Plötz

Ok, but they don't see that one follows not from the other? Supporting open source projects does not automatically imply supporting a specific dotfile collection's money-laundry. For example they could just give the money to Arch directly.

Come to think of it, a way to save face would be to sever ties with Omarchy and give double the amount to Arch.

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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦🐈🐈

I’d been with 1Password since 2008, I think — their first iPhone app, maybe? Moved away from it to Apple Passwords last year. Couldn’t justify their increasingly expensive annual fee when they’d clearly pivoted away from individuals & small businesses towards large, corporate clients.

I’m lucky to have no Android or Windows devices, so this was easy for me. I don’t envy people now faced with choosing a new password manager.

Seeing “Mackay” — with the same, relatively uncommon capitalization I use — at the bottom of the response you got from 1Password only made me sad.

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Laura

Someone whom I'm rudely not crediting (sorry, I forgot your username!) put it best:

> We recognize that the NSDAP is closely associated with its founder, and that raises questions about what our support means. Our contribution is made to the NSDAP, not to an individual, and is not an endorsement of any individual's personal or political views.

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Oriel Jutty

@landelare It was Matthew Garrett.

Matthew Garrett

2026-09-02 07:15:08

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We recognize that the NSDAP is closely associated with its founder, and that raises questions about what our support means. Our contribution is made to the NSDAP, not to an individual, and is not an endorsement of any individual's personal or political views. 1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views.

@Laura
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Carlos Solís

You could have also moved to VaultWarden, the self-hosted manager compatible with BitWarden clients. Given that you have your own server (and that BitWarden is dangerously embracing AI in its codebase), I'm surprised you went for an externally controlled password management tool again.
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b3lt3r

good I guess that you got a human response, but sadly, a corporate word salad so not valuable (imo).

You did better than I did when leaving Mullvad - I explicitly said it was because of their co-founders continued patronage of the far right party in Sweden and said I'd be pleased to return once he had no financial interest in the business.

Annoyed af because Proton is nowhere near as good as Mullvad, but cannot support fash.

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awkapuma

#Boycott1Password

#BoycottOmarchy

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awkapuma

2026-09-03 13:32:10

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#Boycott1Password

#BoycottOmarchy

People must not fund, support or interact with fascist, racist, white supremacist rich people who own tech companies.

If companies dont reject a fascist path, we must reject them.

Its in our hands the power to stop them and built a better world with respect and empathy. Hate and violence are not the way.

#Omarchy #1Password
#BoycottOmarchy #BoycottOmarchy


#boycott1password #boycottomarchy
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯

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Leaked Slack comment from the CEO indicates what they really think: "the Nazis are the victims" -- see theverge.com/tech/988536/1pass…

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
TC Sottek (The Verge)

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Jez 🍞🌹

@thomasfuchs Huh, interesting. The wording there looks like it's also intended to support the insidious narrative that "most people are racists and nazis really, they're just afraid to show it" which helps to bolster the few fascists' confidence but also tries to persuade moderates that fascism is just the way the wind is blowing
@Thomas Fuchs 🫯
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chebra

@thomasfuchs
> you believe in your heart that you have the moral high ground

that's such a weird construct, I've heard it before from people promoting AI - they think anyone who objects to the damage is objecting just because they want to feel superior. Like not because the damage is real. Also it means "having a moral high ground" is some disputable bad thing - anyone talking about morals is the bad guy to them. Is this a new dog-whistle of the fascists?

@Thomas Fuchs 🫯
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@geraldbaeck I know! Apparently several company leaders are huge fans of DHH - like 1P’s head of product 😩 wandering.shop/@dreid/11720788…

dreid

2026-09-03 15:45:40

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@Corax42 in this case one does not even have to assume.

Jason Meller the VP of Product of at 1Password is a big fan of DHH.


@Gerald Bäck
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Corax

That sounds like a pile of bullshit to me. If they had done 5 minutes of Googling, they would have known exactly how their support of Omacom would be perceived by large parts of the developer and open-source communities.

People don't usually tend to throw heaps of money at random foundations with no research about who they are and what they're in the news for. At this point, one has to assume that anyone who chooses to support Omarchy does it because of DHH's views, not despite them.

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WombatDhampir

It should be clear enough by now that for-profit companies are fascism adjacent, if not full on collaborators. Especially in tech, the brain worms have burrowed deep in that industry. We need some nonprofit or cooperative cloud services that exist and run for the users and not just to inflate the ego of some empty suit.
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Gyula R. | Mindful Photography📷✨

Thanks for doing the right thing. I already added 1Password to the global list of boycotted brands and services.🙂

crimeagainstdecency.carrd.co/

Crime Against Decency

A Fediverse community project compiling a growing list of brands that keep supporting the axis of evil: the US, Israel, and Russia, and the sociopath billionaire Epstein class on its imperialist colonizer quest that is a direct threat to the rule of …
Crime Against Decency
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Cassandrich

Entirely bullshit attempt at damage control. Omarchy is one nazi's personal dotfiles. That's all. There is no ecosystem it's part of that 1Password customers rely on. Is is not funding upstreams it depends on except for maybe a few nazi projects like Hyprland, where it's serving the purpose of the foundation: funneling corporate money to nazis. No respectable project would even take Omarchy money.
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[ native english speaker centric post ]

check that the antecedent of your pronouns is obvious and correct

as I read this "their donation" applies to bitwarden, not 1password

Elena Rossini 🌈

2026-09-03 12:22:23

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Earlier this week I unsubscribed from #1Password and moved to #Bitwarden... due to their donation of 300k to DHH's #Omarchy.

I made sure to let them know about the reason, so that hopefully the company would notice those kind of decisions have an impact.

Day one I got messages from their AI system.

But today I got a response by a real human at 1Password (or so it appears).

If you are curious about the company's official response to the backlash, check out the screenshot (and/or #AltText)


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Tock

Essay: TL;DR - there may not be ANY good replacement password managers in the cloud.

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I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥

"Look, we're giving money to a company that throws puppies into a wood chipper, but that patronage is separate from our product decisions."

If I pay a subscription to the company that is giving this money to the puppy killers, at least some of my money is going to wood chipper maintenance. So, I'd choose to stop that.

Bitwarden client + vaultwarden self-hosting is really really good.

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iokevins

@mostlyinvisible
I got the same response via the web contact form near the bottom of this page:

1password.com/contact-support

Help & Customer Support | 1Password

Looking for 1Password help? Reach out to our dedicated 1Password customer service team for fast, friendly, and secure assistance today.
1password.com
@Brian Knight
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Elena Rossini 🌈

@iokevins @mostlyinvisible I used the contact form at the bottom of the email "your subscription has been canceled". There was a line in there that said: "If you have any feedback about your experience contact 1Password Support" with a link to their support page.

I got the idea from someone on the Fediverse who suggested we write to 1P about the reason for canceling... because their support system may keep track of how many people are leaving bc of DHH/Omarchy

@iokevins @Brian Knight
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Mayel

We're running out of words for how shitty things are getting:

  • "enshittification": quality degrades over time
  • mask-off?: turns out they were fascists (or sympathisers) all along, and they've stopped pretending
  • enclosure?: thought you were safe with an open-source alternative? Many are on the same late-stage-capitalism hamster wheel. Bitwarden is now private-equity owned and has scrubbed "always free" from its site. At least it can still be forked... fastcompany.com/91542655/bit...

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@Elena Rossini 🌈
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