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Bitwarden introduced a non-free dependency to their clients. The Bitwarden CTO tried to frame this as a bug but his explanation does not really make it any less concerning.

Perhaps it is time for alternative Bitwarden-compatible clients. An open source client that's not based on Electron would be nice. Or move to something else entirely? Are there any other client-server open source password managers?

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The downside to Keepass is it is not self hosted, as in it's designed to run locally per device. Yes, you can put the database file on a network and have multiple clients from different operating systems access the database, but you will end up with collisions and database issues. Ask me how I know.

Running cross platform Keepass (and it's various forks) is absolutely doable, but it is not as seemless as BitWarden. I'm running self hosted VaultWarden and I'm hoping to run it for a long time as it's much easier than Keepass.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

For what it's worth, I only ever had sync issues when sharing a database between devices with transient connectivity. Once I added an always-on instance of Syncthing into the mix, collisions were a thing of the past.

We've been using KeePass trouble-free for many years now, sharing a single database across more than 6 devices, with frequent use and modification.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Syncthing just announced they won't develop their Android app anymore. 🫤

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While the official syncthing-android is no longer being updated, syncthing-fork is still going strong

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