@emotional_soup_88@programming.dev
Post #2297842
2026-04-12 11:31 UTC
Thank you for sharing your story and journey! The following is a comment from a meta perspective. Absolutely no pun intended... If it's any consolation at all, I think this illustrates how a lot of digital industry giants have purposefully created ecosystems that are hard to leave, with the sole purpose of reaping your data, of course. It also shows how attaining even small steps towards digital privacy, which should *not* be this complicated, requires social and economic sacrifices, which in itself is insane, considering that privacy is supposed to be a universal human right.
Now, a more direct comment. Always keep in mind that the end user is NEVER to blame for such back and forth struggles as you describe. You "wouldn't" commit, you say. Did ANY of the big tech giants ever make it easy for you, I ask?
Personally, I'm using Tuta, SimpleLogin and KeepassXC (and it's fork for Android). My setup won't really give you any good hints though, since I'm not trying to achieve that smooth and dynamic workflow and ecosystem with easy credential sharing, exports and inter device operation. I log in and out of every instance every time on every device and manually update my password database and manually synch it to all my devices. It's a hassle, but then again, it takes just a few more minutes and I like "fiddling"..
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@BrilliantBadger@piefed.ca 2026-04-12 13:25
Similar. Just months ago moved from BW to KeePassXC and android equiv Nothing bad say about Bitwarden its fantastic & served me well, but wanted to go fully offline Manually updating the phone is not nearly the deal I thought would be, as my logins fairly static & use my phone as little as possible for most items where logins needed Of course each of us has separate use cases, but +1 for KeePass really like it