jonty,
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jonty,
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As the elders foretold, Kagi has become a t-shirt printing company that advertises using a search engine

PaulGrahamRaven,
@PaulGrahamRaven@assemblag.es avatar

@jonty Also, "wearing the Doggo t-shirt is an incredibly awesome experience", jfc, how and when did we normalise businesses talking to us like recalcitrant four-year-olds

jonty,
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

@PaulGrahamRaven That sentence singlehandedly put me off trying Kagi

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@jonty It had been parked as a tab in my browser between [a date about a month or so back] and [literally six minutes ago], yeah

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@jonty This feels a bit like the carcinization hypothesis in biology? Like, the environmental pressures of C21st capitalism means that any and all businesses with an online element will inevitably devolve to being just another merch operation

mattround,
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@jonty wtf are they doing

jonty,
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

@mattround I honestly thought this was an April Fool at first

andybaio,
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@jonty @mattround my bozo bit flipped on Kagi when I saw the founder write “Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reasons we do not have innovation any more” as a response to customers criticizing them for partnering with Brave last December https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638

mattround,
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@andybaio @jonty Yep, regardless of the actual point in question there was no need to bring a broader ideological gripe into it, it's the same kind of “FFS why can't we just do whatever we want any more" exasperation seen many times before from tech bosses

jonty,
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

@mattround @andybaio Oh wow, if I'd seen this sooner I would have written them off long ago

adamgreenfield,
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@jonty Check the date on this announcement?

jonty,
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scy,
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@jonty I mean when not even Linus G. Sebastian is "quality-focused" enough to set up his own t-shirt printing company, these guys are clearly onto something

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