#vaultwarden — Public Fediverse posts

I gave vaultwarden a try last year when I was also playing with the idea of going from iOS to grapheneOS. But I didn’t switch and it languished stale on the hardware.

My question is this. Is the best path still to self host vaultwarden or switch to the official server?

#selfhost #1password #bitwarden #vaultwarden

Having now tried out both #Bitwarden and #Secrets (dot app), while neither is a perfect replacement for #1Password (because #Drop1Password) I think I am coming down on the side of Bitwarden for at least the short term.

Secrets' UX is a bit slicker…except for how its FF extension chose to do an extremely awkward dance with the GUI app instead of having something inline. Not a deal-breaker but a big red mark.

Secrets also lacks SSH key support; I /could/ go back to exporting privkeys to disk, but it'd be nice not to.

And the self-host potential of Bitwarden / #Vaultwarden is a compelling offramp in this "every company is a new opportunity to get rugpulled" world. Secrets is made by a small Apple-ecosystem design shop, who clearly do good work, but I'd be worried about a closure leaving the apps to eventually rot out of the App Store.

Having now tried out both #Bitwarden and #Secrets (dot app), while neither is a perfect replacement for #1Password (because #Drop1Password) I think I am coming down on the side of Bitwarden for at least the short term.

Secrets' UX is a bit slicker…except for how its FF extension chose to do an extremely awkward dance with the GUI app instead of having something inline. Not a deal-breaker but a big red mark.

Secrets also lacks SSH key support; I /could/ go back to exporting privkeys to disk, but it'd be nice not to.

And the self-host potential of Bitwarden / #Vaultwarden is a compelling offramp in this "every company is a new opportunity to get rugpulled" world. Secrets is made by a small Apple-ecosystem design shop, who clearly do good work, but I'd be worried about a closure leaving the apps to eventually rot out of the App Store.

Having now tried out both #Bitwarden and #Secrets (dot app), while neither is a perfect replacement for #1Password (because #Drop1Password) I think I am coming down on the side of Bitwarden for at least the short term.

Secrets' UX is a bit slicker…except for how its FF extension chose to do an extremely awkward dance with the GUI app instead of having something inline. Not a deal-breaker but a big red mark.

Secrets also lacks SSH key support; I /could/ go back to exporting privkeys to disk, but it'd be nice not to.

And the self-host potential of Bitwarden / #Vaultwarden is a compelling offramp in this "every company is a new opportunity to get rugpulled" world. Secrets is made by a small Apple-ecosystem design shop, who clearly do good work, but I'd be worried about a closure leaving the apps to eventually rot out of the App Store.

Having now tried out both #Bitwarden and #Secrets (dot app), while neither is a perfect replacement for #1Password (because #Drop1Password) I think I am coming down on the side of Bitwarden for at least the short term.

Secrets' UX is a bit slicker…except for how its FF extension chose to do an extremely awkward dance with the GUI app instead of having something inline. Not a deal-breaker but a big red mark.

Secrets also lacks SSH key support; I /could/ go back to exporting privkeys to disk, but it'd be nice not to.

And the self-host potential of Bitwarden / #Vaultwarden is a compelling offramp in this "every company is a new opportunity to get rugpulled" world. Secrets is made by a small Apple-ecosystem design shop, who clearly do good work, but I'd be worried about a closure leaving the apps to eventually rot out of the App Store.

Having now tried out both #Bitwarden and #Secrets (dot app), while neither is a perfect replacement for #1Password (because #Drop1Password) I think I am coming down on the side of Bitwarden for at least the short term.

Secrets' UX is a bit slicker…except for how its FF extension chose to do an extremely awkward dance with the GUI app instead of having something inline. Not a deal-breaker but a big red mark.

Secrets also lacks SSH key support; I /could/ go back to exporting privkeys to disk, but it'd be nice not to.

And the self-host potential of Bitwarden / #Vaultwarden is a compelling offramp in this "every company is a new opportunity to get rugpulled" world. Secrets is made by a small Apple-ecosystem design shop, who clearly do good work, but I'd be worried about a closure leaving the apps to eventually rot out of the App Store.

@Larvitz @jwildeboer I just re-tooled the Ansible for my "private cloud" to use the Traefik configuration from that blog post and tested it on a VM at Hetzner. 20 minutes to a private cloud with the following components:

- #Keycloak
- #OneDev
- #Vaultwarden
- #Nextcloud AIO
- #SearXNG
- Static blog site using #VitePress
- #OpenVPN

I also have a playbook to automate the backups (on and off-site)

🕯️ Tools from the Silence: Open Source Weapons for Small Business Security #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #SmallBusinessSecurity #FOSS #DigitalFreedom #DataProtection #PasswordManager #LibreOffice #Vaultwarden #Passbolt #KeePassXC #Nextcloud #pfSense #MatrixProtocol #ElementChat #PrivacyTools #ZeroTrust #SelfHosting #SecurityFirst #EncryptedCommunication

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/26/%f0%9f%95%af%ef%b8%8f-tools-from-the-silence-open-source-weapons-for-small-business-security/