Being able to join an instance with its own culture, while still being able to connect outside that culture, is the only reason I use any social media at all.

I understand it can be confusing for people coming from Twitter or Facebook or wherever, the local instance culture is Mastodon’s greatest strength. That, of course, and the lack drive to turn a profit from users.

Joplin is quite good; I still keep it around for longer form writing. For everyday note taking I switched to logseq about a year ago. They're in a weird phase technically (in tye midst of a huge rewrite id the persistence layer) but it’s the first PKM app I’ve used that I’ve really gelled with.

Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc.

For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an easy way to share passwords, so my wife and I had duplicates of a handful of passwords, which was annoying when they changed, or when we needed to share a new one.

Moving to Bitwarden meant that we can have a set of passwords that are shared, and we can update or add to it. As the kids have gotten older, I’ve get them using it too, so we can share a small set of passwords with them (wifi, streaming services etc).

That’s… not how software works, no matter how it is produced. Complexity is the enemy; always.

We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers.

The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap I have set up (self hosted Vaultwarden included…).