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note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone’s best interests

edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people

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Can I ask a sincere question? whats a tech sociopath apologist, could you demonstrate an example?

Again, im sincerely genuinely asking

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Someone who takes it on themselves to act as apologist for the words/actions of tech sociopaths

Often seen as “weird nerds coming to defense of $x” (such as musk, or in this case the kagi dudebro)

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(And then I glanced at your post history and noticed a trend of JAQing off so I now doubt whether you’re sincere in asking)

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Seeing how successful Kagi is when run by someone who actively sets their own money on fire for no reason almost makes me want to try and start a search engine company. I mean I couldn’t do it any worse right? And there is a market for it.

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Copy-pasting the alt-text from one of the screenshots because I can’t be assed to type it out myself:

Discord convo from 07/15/22, Vlad: people who really need anonymity are very rare. Probably less than a 100 in the entire world. Definitely not typical Kagi users. Unless they are criminals, in which case we don’t care they don’t have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

yikes, double yikes and triple yikes.

I guess he doesn’t care to help women find a safe way to have an abortion in 14 out of 50 US states (source), for starters. Nor to help the doubtlessly more-than-100 queer folk in places that outlaw homosexuality.

Or maybe he’s such a genius that he knows how to keep them safe without actually keeping them anonymous - and in that case, he should start selling such a technique as its own product /s

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Can I sincerely ask what we’re supposed to use instead?

Kagi has given me the best search experience ive had in at least a decade, I’m not going back to the enshittification engine, and everything else is just bing in fancy wrapping paper. Is there something else like Kagi? Is there something like DDG or Searx that arent just slightly better bing?

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Also looking for answers. I’ve been a Kagi convert for 5 months now and it has absolutely saved me time and effort.

I was looking at Perplexity but it isn’t exactly the same.

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Feel entirely free to use Kagi, just remember that it’s run by an idiot and could blow up at any moment.

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Apologies, my question wasn’t rhetorical, I was genuinely looking for suggestions. I don’t want to use kagi if this is who is running it… BUT all the alternatives that I’m personally aware of are not options for replacement.

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basically the whole area is gallopping enshittification. Until this blowup, I had seriously been considering Kagi too.

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I’m in a forum where some person claims that the sealion is actually the reasonable one.

It’s proof to me that this throwaway comic is such a good summary for certain online behavior that there’s an entire subculture built around trying to subvert it.

(also Wondermark is great in general)

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