• jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    That was a huge wall of text - TLDR :

    • Kagi has private investors
    • Kagi has had some questionable uses of the private funding, such as opening a t-shirt company
    • Kagi started as a AI focused company and pivoted to search
    • Kagi is spread too thin over many different projects
    • Kagi doesn’t take privacy, or user data seriously

    Fair enough, but as long as google, bing, ddg, etc get more and more unusable there will be fans of alternative searches

    Even if Kagi crashes and burns, it has demonstrated there is a market demand for useful search results that users pay for directly.

    FWIW I don’t use Kagi because of the login / payment info requirements, so I agree broadly with the author. As bad as public searching is, its good enough to not give up privacy.

  • wolfruff@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Im with Kagi on this. Wtf is wrong with someone sending you emails to an email you decided to make public. This person is projecting how fragile their argument is by reacting this way.

    Vlad was doing the right thing discussing it in private first before they probably address this stupid attempt at causing drama. I read all of the shit they posted and it sounds to me like they are nitpicking/strawmanning AI features which are very VERY optional.

  • Affidavit@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    TBH, OP sounds like a bit of an entitled douche, edit: not the most appropriate descriptor, but I do think OP should try and look at the situation from another perspective.

    In their blog post they complained about lack of transparency and noted numerous issues with Kagi that caused them to lose faith in the company. The CEO personally responds to explain themselves (i.e. make things more transparent) and OP sticks their fingers in their ears and acts liked they’re a victim because the CEO attempts service recovery.

    I’ve made public complaints about companies before. I wish I received such tailored and personalised responses.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Conflicted! Cory Doctorow just endorsed it & I’m way less smart than that person so i usually do what they say :\

    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      it’s very likely that Cory didn’t have enough time to do research, visit the company’s Discord, and so on.

        • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          when it’s listed as one of the company’s official communication channels with the owner of the company frequently participating, then I sure as hell am going to judge the company by it.

    • ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I mean, that seems like a really sceptical way to live. Often things get shilled because people are just happy with the service and think the business is doing things well. I am a kagi user and have brought it up to some others, including outside of lemmy, because I find it produces better search results than ddg etc. And it’s a definite step up from google in privacy