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Thoughts on Kagi? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using this search engine and I have to say I'm absolutely in love with it.

Search results are great, Google level even. Can't tell you how happy I am after trying multiple privacy oriented engines and always feeling underwhelmed with them.

Have you tried it? What are your thoughts on it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's interesting that in your previous month-old comment you mentioned "a paraphrased and reinterpreted (in bad faith) piece of a comment" from the CEO, which confused me, because the Mastodon thread also includes the content of a comment the CEO tried to scrub.

But you did write this gem:

Now, since my mother tongue has the unfortunate responsibility for having coined the term "fascism", I think I have at least an idea of what it means.

...appeal to ethnicity is pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That is not what Ethnicity is.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We are talking about the same thread, right?

https://nyan.lol/@zicklepop/111716010186646210

This one.

There is no comment that the "CEO tried to scrub". There is only a discord screenshot of a meta-conversation about the fact that the user claimed their comment was deleted, and the CEO answers that nothing was deleted to avoid this very same accusation, and then says he will delete this (the meta) thread (because it's off-topic).

Not sure what you find funny though, however,

a paraphrased and reinterpreted (in bad faith) piece of a comment

referred to:

and his response is basically that inclusivity is why there is no innovation in tech anymore. i think he wants to get acquired by 37signals.

Which is completely arbitrary. Even wanting to read the comment of the CEO with malice, he said "politics".

…appeal to ethnicity is pretty funny

This has nothing to do with ethnicity, it has to do with words and meaning. Calling someone a fascist for such matter is completely bananas and - frankly - disrespectful towards the people who died fighting the actual fascism. The CEO can be an idiot, or a tech bro, but he expressed his views and let others express theirs. This is pretty evident from their forum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We are talking about the same thread, right?

Oops. I was looking a few comments up in this very Lemmy thread, somebody linked to this other Lemmy thread.

I do think it is super important to discuss whether a tech bro is just making a quick cash grab product in order to get bought out by a larger corporation, though. As seen with the Skiff tech bros.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that thread linked (https://lemm.ee/comment/8016834) references the same Mastodon thread. I know because I followed all of this few months back.

I do think it is super important to discuss whether a tech bro is just making a quick cash grab product in order to get bought out by a larger corporation, though. As seen with the Skiff tech bros.

Oh yeah, this is definitely interesting, but...while email is somewhat binding as a service, a search engine is not. Give me 2 minutes and I have changed the default search engine on all my devices away from Kagi. If that will be the case (despite the fact that so far, I have no reason to think it is the case), it will be super easy to move away. I think if I were a Skiff customer without a custom domain, I would still be crying instead.