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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email (hackers.town)

submitted 7 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I had a weirdass email exchange with that same guy that pushed me away from Kagi forever. It was one of those "borderline technically honest but still blatantly dodging and obfuscating" type situations.

I shared a screenshot once, but got nothing but defense for the guys dodgy behavior, so I've been quiet about it, so this feels pretty validating that my gut feelings were right.

I think a lot of people get cultish about it because they're paying a subscription for it, so they have to believe it's good.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah, they've fostered an audience of unhinged stans

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

huh. the modlog is wild. my commiserations.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this thread has been an excellent honeypot for some of the worst people on Lemmy, and TechTakes definitely needed some cleaning up now that our threads keep hitting all

it’s very funny to see how those posters react to the idea that their fucking garbage takes in defense of an asshole CEO aren’t welcome here, and that we have a minimum standard they just aren’t meeting. there’s this weird concept in a lot of folks’ heads from shareholder-oriented social media like Reddit that every community is for them and has to suffer their garbage, but that thankfully isn’t the case here.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it's also hugely amusing that the default Lemmy behaviour is mod-removed comments get removed from their home instance too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

proposal to change the mod button to be a mini icon of a nuke

for maximum points, a small animation of a nuke from orbit