@_elena "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.

@_elena
If you have a proton account just use proton pass 😄

@_elena Form letter. Same response sent to a Verge reader in their comments.

Turns out 1Password is a "big tent" company same as all the other alt-right donors. (They don't mention it but the same reasoning: we like who we like, we aren't changing our mind, your political views aren't our problem.)

@_elena What a waste of time all that typing was. I didn't even finish reading this pile. Fuck them.

"...already have a meaningful presence in that community..."

Yep. Understood.

@_elena tone deaf fascist enabling wankers.

@_elena Shorter 1Password: "Evil is not a dealbreaker for us and we're sorry to hear it is one for you."

@_elena @inthehands “We didn’t donate to DHH, we donated to the foundation DHH controls. It’s completely different!”

@_elena the fact that they have a canned response ready to go tells you that they're getting this feedback from a lot of people, but not actually listening to it.

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

https://crimeagainstdecency.carrd.co/

@_elena It is at minimum a form letter — I got the exact same reply. I've also left for greener pastures.

@_elena 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.

@_elena did you know that you can host your own Bitwarden via @yunohost? Vaultwarden is the key! Using it over one year on my Raspi and it's great! :-)

@_elena 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.

@_elena
Wow. Thanks so much for this Elena - I read it as ‘get f*cked’. Glad you - and others - are not with them anymore. Respect. 👍🙏🏻

@_elena god, they really think we're all so dumb.

@_elena Same reply I got. Fuck ‘em.

@_elena Leaked Slack comment from the CEO indicates what they really think: "the Nazis are the victims" -- see https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy

@_elena "We contributed to an organization, which, unlike people, can do no evil. Even if its members are evil people"

BULLSHIT

@_elena I’m in the process of installing VaultWarden so I only use the app. Their response was just not convincing enough.

@_elena

#Boycott1Password

#BoycottOmarchy

https://mastodon.social/@awkapuma/117207356572123170

@_elena "we decided to support Hitler's art, not Hitler as a person, because we want to support art and it's communities."

@_elena It's giving Mullvad

@_elena 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.

@_elena Remove abusive power, before it's too late, and avalanches into utter collapse.

@_elena kudos to them for supplying a meaningful response 😊.

@bitwarden is a great product, btw ... have been using it for several years for our entire family

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.

@_elena

I received the exact same response, word for word, which is understandable

I do wish they didn't downplay it so much

@_elena bitwarden is great, using it for many years. What's wrong with omarchy?

@_elena 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.

@_elena there's plenty of other ways to support open source work financially that don't go to a nazi's foundation (at least I assume nazi's haven't taken over all of open source).

@_elena

"[T]houghtfully and openly" sounds like typical feedback on instructions by #genai to me.

@_elena 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.

@_elena I got exactly the same canned response after contacting them this morning to express my feelings on the matter. Mine was signed by "Luke H".

@_elena Thank you for sharing this.

@_elena@mastodon.social the usual "not the individual" thing

@_elena So you made the move to Bitwarden?

@_elena It sounds real from a human.

@_elena yeah, the usual "don't mix politics with tech/software" bullsh*t basically

@_elena the response may be human generated but it seems the same for many people who contact them https://nicolalosito.it/2026/09/03/1password-replied-to-my-disappointment/