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2026-09-03 12:22 UTC

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)

Replies (18)

  • @mrv404@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 12:26

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

    Open ##4611930

  • @fiend4coffee@c.im 2026-09-03 12:29

    @_elena@mastodon.social So you made the move to Bitwarden?

    Open ##4612258

  • @garrettc@mastodon.org.uk 2026-09-03 12:39

    @_elena@mastodon.social 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".

    Open ##4612269

  • @jerrej@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 12:46

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

    Open ##4612290

  • @gooser3000@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 12:47

    @_elena@mastodon.social 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).

    Open ##4612300

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

    Open ##4612362

  • @cauZation@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 13:29

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

    Open ##4612514

  • @rubenwardy@hachyderm.io 2026-09-03 12:57

    @_elena@mastodon.social I received the exact same response, word for word, which is understandable I do wish they didn't downplay it so much

    Open ##4612517

  • @sturmsucht@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 13:36

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

    Open ##4612544

  • @kaito02@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 13:41

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

    Open ##4612591

  • @Corax42@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 14:26

    @_elena@mastodon.social 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.

    Open ##4612805

  • @_elena@mastodon.social 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.

    Open ##4612813

  • @atomicbird@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 15:31

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

    Open ##4613157

  • @crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-09-03 17:15

    @_elena@mastodon.social 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.

    Open ##4613597

  • @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 2026-09-03 13:46

    @_elena@mastodon.social 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

    Open ##4614023

  • @geraldbaeck@fedi.at 2026-09-03 14:05

    @_elena@mastodon.social damned, I really love 1Password, but now it has to go. I am not paying for this.

    Open ##4619124

  • @crisl_at@mastodon.social 2026-09-05 04:53

    @_elena@mastodon.social Got the exact same reply. :(

    Open ##4622026

  • @adamizcool@mastodon.social 2026-09-07 05:30

    @_elena@mastodon.social "NONONONO WAIT WERE NOT SENDING MONEY TO DHH WERE SENDING MONEY TO DHH INDRIECTLY"

    Open ##4638062