Link: https://itsfoss.com/news/1password-omarchy-pledge/

Fascism Arch Linux gets more funding.

Omarchy has been on something of a roll now. Funding for its foundation has been climbing fast, from an $8 million launch to $10 million a few weeks later, and now crossing $13 million with the most recent pledge.

What's drawn my attention are the first two Corporate Patrons, 1Password and 37signals, both of whom have decided to pitch $100,000 a year for the next three years. Now, 37signals I get; DHH is heavily involved there, but 1Password was a surprise entry.

Naturally, not everyone's onboard with their pledge.

Signs of disagreement

This has not gone well with employees working at 1Password, with company leadership having to take certain damage control measures to assure their staff.

An internal Slack message has surfaced (courtesy of The Verge), which shows cofounder Roustem Karimov downplaying the criticism, telling team members that:

people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind.

However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you. There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.

CEO David Faugno responded on a different note, telling employees the company doesn't endorse DHH's views, while also noting that Omarchy is the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password's own users.
Why the backlash?

DHH is known to be someone who firmly falls on the "right" side of the political spectrum, someone who doesn't shy away from putting his opinions in public view.

He regularly posts blogs that show where he stands on certain societal issues, and some of his recent writeups are what's fueling this particular backlash.

His recent July post, titled "Wolves, sheep, and gypsies," compares Denmark's wolf population with the Romani people camping in Copenhagen parks, where he argues: "When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."

Then there's "As I remember London" from September 2025, where he laments about London losing its native Brit majority and a nod of approval for a Tommy Robinson march.

Of course, these aren't the only factors behind his disapproval, but you get the gist of it, right?

Users could jump ship

If you search for the terms "1Password" and "Omarchy" right now, you are bound to run into the many comments made by disgruntled 1Password users on Reddit and Hacker News.

They are calling the choice tone-deaf, given how many smaller open source projects could've benefited from the money. Some are already jumping to alternatives like Bitwarden, while others suggest self-hosting Vaultwarden or going with KeePass and its forks instead.

I see the issue compounding too. Back in February, 1Password raised subscription prices, taking effect at renewals from March 27. Individual plans went up 33 percent from $35.88 to $47.88 a year, and family plans went up 20 percent from $59.88 to $71.88.

Its community forum already has a long thread full of longtime users saying they were leaving over it. If 1Password continues playing with its users' trust like this, who knows what kind of exodus it will see next?

I can believe in my heart that the nazis were evil and the fact that not everyone believes that does not make it incorrect.

It just means that other people are either evil or ignorant.

In general just because I believe something does not make it correct, however, in this case we have objective evidence of these claims, that you can still read for yourself from DHH’s own blog directly.

Uuuuhhhh... those prices... kinda have a, um, theme.

I see the issue compounding too. Back in February, 1Password raised subscription prices, taking effect at renewals from March 27. Individual plans went up 33 percent from $35.88 to $47.88 a year, and family plans went up 20 percent from $59.88 to $71.88

I'm now certain Omarchy is going to be some form of data mining spyware OS. This is all way too suspicious.

Godwin's law strikes again!

Guy guy make it simple just use Keepass.

Holy s

I refuse!

I use KeepassXC instead.

Oh right Keepass is the uncivilized version and the KeepassXC is the linux one.

Yes. I use KeepassXC on Linux & MacOS, KeepassDX on Android, and Keepassium on iOS.

Holy shit I had no idea... That's even worse.

Godwin’s law

I looked it up, Mike Godwin said that the alt-right and similar people do deserve to be compared to the nazis.

No one in Denmark gives a shit about him though.

I'm glad to be aware of FOSS alternatives nowadays for pretty much any service I use/require.

I would never pay these prices for a password manager (not even the initial price), specially considering my sensitive data would be sent to a 3rd party company through a closed source project which no one can verify.

Even using Bitwarden free (which admittedly I use for convenience) is not exactly comfortable to me, even being mostly open source. I'm constantly considering moving back to KeePass as I used to do some years ago.

if a subscription I ever use raises their prices AND makes it end in $x.88 I would definitely cancel

So much of my life is in 1Password, but they’ve consistently done everything they can to make me want to jump ship. This might be the last straw.

You have two phones!!

Guys, this one has the money. Let's get davel!! :)

At this point I can't help but think that the Omarchy funding is some sort of money laundering scheme. I just don't get it.

The prices are on the higher side, yes, but that's not the main problem.

Sounds bad...until you realize that this is how math works. Any subscription whose monthly price ends in .99 will have an annual price that ends in .88.

• Netflix @ 8.99 a month? That's 107.88! Nazis!
• Crunchyroll @ 9.99 / 13.99 / 17.99 a month! Nazis!
• Xbox Gamepass @ 9.99 a month? That's 119.88! Nazis!

Only people who are bad at math and committed to finding Nazis, real or imaginary, hiding in every nook and cranny even think about this.

If that that's not enough consider that prices ending .99 have been a sales tactic since forever. It's sometimes called "Charm Pricing" or "The 99 Effect".

Any subscription whose monthly price ends in .99 will have an annual price that ends in .88.

• Netflix @ 8.99 a month? That’s 107.88! Nazis!
• Crunchyroll @ 9.99 / 13.99 / 17.99 a month! Nazis!
• Xbox Gamepass @ 9.99 a month? That’s 119.88! Nazis!

Did no one in these comments pass grade school math?!

I switched to Bitwarden over this and the only thing I had to redo was my passkeys. Everything else migrated seamlessly with the simple import and export.

I'm a little out of the loop I guess. Why do all these corpos care about this dork's Arch reskin?

Changing PW managers is dead simple. Takes like 5 minutes. There are a handful of great OSS options.

That's why they make promotional yearly prices, unless they don't care about sending a message. I'm not even saying that is intentional here.

It's nice you're giving your favorite rich 4channers denial plausibility, tho.

I'm guessing it's more of a critical thinking issue.

"Huh, that's a weird number. I wonder why that is..." is harder than "That number is associated with Nazis!"

That being said... Maybe 1Password should offer an annual subscription discount. Both because buying in bulk often comes with a discount, but also to avoid the number that's associated with Nazis.

More open back doors than Grindr.

oop mb lol

I don't think he said "and similar".

"By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis," because their actions involved swastikas and Nazi salutes, making the comparison substantive rather than glib.

I mean, in that case -you'd definitely be right, and I would be the first to admit I stand corrected. But as someone whose grandfather has been killed by actual nazis, I do find it in poor taste how easily people reach for that comparison.

Netflix do not sell a product that costs $107.88. There is no option to spend that amount on their website. No sniggering 4Chan gremlin set the price of Netflix to a number that is used as a call sign of Nazis.

These cunts have a whole menu of products that all have fixed prices that they specifically decided should end in 88. They could have rounded up or down to the nearest dollar, or use the same .99 price as everyone else, but they didn't and, the more I read of these people, the less I'm thinking it's accidental. And you're defending them.

You want to criticise other people for their maths skills, maybe brush up on your reasoning skills first.

Because for some reason that dork secured lots of funding. Wish this money would go towards other more sustainable projects...

As I said to the other almost identical comment you made defending them and criticising everyone for not being as wise as you: you can't buy Netflix for 107.88. That's just not an price they sell anything. But you can buy a whole selection of products from these dicks for .88 prices, which is a fixed price they specifically picked. Not a coincidence, a deliberate and conscious decision. As you rightly said, most businesses would have picked a .99 price or even a whole dollar amount. These people picked .88. What kind of person picks .88?

if a fucking dotfile distro can suddenly get so much funding because they are nazi.

They don't. DHH is a rich guy with rich friends. This is just friends donating to a friend's project to show support.

And that also means that the CEO of 1Password really has no problems with DHH as a person, those who talk about Omarchy being revolutionary/special or anything like that at best have rose-tinted glasses.

because he is openly fascist and they want to fight for ownership of the space. funding fascists achieves this.

Funding for what? Some dotfiles? I literally don't understand why forking Arch would require a third of a million dollars.

Calling someone a nazi out of the blue is offputting and can be trivializing, yeah, but in this case it's an accurate descriptor of their beliefs and the political movements they're funding, they're advocating to do ethnic cleansing in Europe as we speak.

But as someone whose grandfather has been killed by actual nazis, I do find it in poor taste how easily people reach for that comparison.

Nazism is not a "special epoch occurrence" anymore. There's Nazism happening right now. Just think of what's happening on Gaza and the West Bank.

I had to redo was my passkeys

phew Glad I don't use passkeys.

I also had to look it up

Keepass has always been great. If you aren't regularly sharing account logins with other people, you just have a file you can sync using whatever method you want. For clients, I recommend KeepassDX on android, and KeePassXC on PC.

it probably is

I don’t believe for a second that this jabroney distribution that most people haven’t heard of is the highest used among 1Password users. That statement needs fact checking

I just heard about Omarchy yesterday for the first time and I'm already sick of it.

Control. Promotion of ideals that not-so-secretly align with their own.

Or a third of a dollar for that matter.

He segued from wolves being a problem and people shooting them being unsung heroes straight into 'the gypsy problem'. Couldn't be much clearer imo.

You really should read that blog.

I don't "easily" reach for that comparison, but it's pretty fitting in this case.
And for most of the current US government.

We must not forget that fascism comes in many shapes. It doesn't have to be strict and german-like with uniforms, it doesn't have to be against Jews specifically, and it doesn't need to gas people to deserve that name.

I wonder if Arch brings in anywhere near what this is getting.

I've been using Syncthing and KeePass for years and it's been fantastic!