Authy is lovely in that it just works, but it is hellacious to migrate off of if you change your mind.

I also don’t love that Authy is owned by Twilio, a communications/marketing service company.

A password manager can be considered critical infrastructure; beyond privacy and uptime/access considerations, you should also consider what happens if you lose all of your data - Do you have backups? Are the backups 3-2-1 redundant? Do you have a ready-to-go docker compose to get yourself up and running locally in a pinch?

I self-hosted bitwarden (vaultwarden) for several years and it became evident to me that it was important enough to use the hosted service - especially as I was already paying Bitwarden to support their open source business.

It’s not just every tech company, it’s every company. And it’s terrifying - it’s like giving people who don’t know how to ride a bike a 1000hp motorcycle! The industry does not have guardrails in place and the public consciousness “chatGPT can do it” without any thought to checking the output is horrifying.