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As many of you know, I posted recently about my experiences and outlook on Kagi, the paid search engine. It's gotten some positive press recently, ironically right after I made my blog post about why I no longer liked or trusted it. This blog post was called "Why I Lost Faith In Kagi" and was a pretty simple quick collection of my thoughts that I primarily wrote so it'd be easier to find again later to link to people when discussing Kagi versus making it a fedi thread I couldn't search for easily later. Across the four social media platforms I linked this blog post on, I'd say it got a total of about 40 likes and few reblogs.
https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
I say this because this morning I woke up to an email from Kagi's CEO, Vlad, who had seen the post and was upset about it. I have an email address listed on my blog (which is why I didn't bother removing it from these logs), which is what he sent his emails to. I am posting this entire email chain in this thread and will briefly post my thoughts about it, but I feel like it's something that needs to be seen. Please take note of the subject of the email as well (EDIT: It got cropped out sorry, the subject is "Fatih [sic] can not be lost"). Also, since the alt text would get extremely long with some of the transcripts, I've provided a text dump of the emails here for screen reader users and will offer a more abridged description in the alt text: https://d-shoot.net/files/kagiemails.txt
It seems like he was rude to email you specifically when you told him not to, but the rest is just standard CEO behaviour.
It seems like he had answers/responses to a lot of what you said so I’m still kind of with him (though guardedly). Mainly due to lack of a better option; I do think paid search is the way forward.
Probably what he should have done is a response blog-post that we could have also discussed publically, and at our own leisure.
Reading your article I get why he would have got defensive (regardless of if he’s covering his ass or has genuine counter-arguments).
admittedly, no: it’s still all just as unhinged ridiculous invalid derpery as it was before you missed the simple rhetorical device of post title phrasing including “we”
yeah so just to be clear: you missed that the title of this thread is barely modified from a dril quote and spent so little time reading the linked article that you missed it wasn’t written by David Gerard?
your original post was just barely not bannable because “CEOs are just like this” is a shitty but valid take. now it’s obvious you didn’t put even a minimal amount of effort into your post.
It seems like he was rude to email you specifically when you told him not to, but the rest is just standard CEO behaviour.
It seems like he had answers/responses to a lot of what you said so I’m still kind of with him (though guardedly). Mainly due to lack of a better option; I do think paid search is the way forward.
Probably what he should have done is a response blog-post that we could have also discussed publically, and at our own leisure.
Reading your article I get why he would have got defensive (regardless of if he’s covering his ass or has genuine counter-arguments).
are you aware that David isn’t Lori?
The post desc is in the first person. People use different usernames for things too.
Does it change the validity of what I said?
no, it continues to fail the pointless dipshit bar we apply locally
admittedly, no: it’s still all just as unhinged ridiculous invalid derpery as it was before you missed the simple rhetorical device of post title phrasing including “we”
yeah so just to be clear: you missed that the title of this thread is barely modified from a dril quote and spent so little time reading the linked article that you missed it wasn’t written by David Gerard?
your original post was just barely not bannable because “CEOs are just like this” is a shitty but valid take. now it’s obvious you didn’t put even a minimal amount of effort into your post.
aaaahem Pixelated Duck quote
oh fuck! im not owned! im not owned!!
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I miss twitter