Nothing.

It’s perfectly fine for the class of Linux user that only has a slight-to-none Vitamin D deficiency.

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Did you actually read their response? It wasn’t bad at all. As a customer, this is a mountain out of a molehill.

What’s he to stay? Promise to vigorously look at the ethics of every executive at every data source going forward? That’s a losing proposition. At least the person isn’t bullshitting around pretending to cater to politics then lie about it.

I can’t think of any data source that would be 100.0% pure, especially once you add in the executives.

The Fediverse is, yet again, being unreasonable here.

This is yet another case of the Fediverse blowing something out of proportions. This shouldn’t surprise anyone using Kagi if they were paying attention to the sources they were using to begin with.

That said, I still use Kagi and this doesn’t impact my view of them in the slightest.

Yes, Eich is a very toxic character who should be avoided for his anti-LGBTQ views, but Brave is far from the most controversial data source they could be utilizing.

Yandex has (had?) a known CSAM issue.

Yelp manipulates businesses about their reviews, which can help kill off small businesses.

Mapbox was engaging in union-busting tactics.

Google continues entrenching themselves in a lot of ways that violate privacy and doing who-knows-what with our information.

Choosing to use APIs from Brave seems so inconsequential by comparison.

I’m guessing they might just limit it to a hand-picked list of big instances for now.

In theory someone could get close to indexing all of a federated system by writing software that speaks activitypub, subscribe to a bunch of communities, and wait for the instances hosting those communities to push you new posts/comments, then use the domains of users in each new post/comment to add more instances to scan.

On the main Kagi search page, under the dropdown for Lenses click “Fediverse Forum Search” or something.

It’s OK so far. It only indexes communities on the largest Lemmy instances (I wasn’t able to find communities hosted on my tiny instance) but it’s a start!

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I’m glad to hear your community raised this up and that you’re receptive about the feedback. I’ve subscribed and will give it a shot!

I make great use of filters on Mastodon and it’s improved my experience tremendously for much of the same reasons over there. On Lemmy I use Voyager so it is an option.

I’m hesitant to do keyword filtering because I also host an instance, and I’m concerned that I’d miss something that needs to be handled. I didn’t really care so much about wanting to keep an eye on stuff until people were posting malicious content affecting other servers a few months ago.

I agree with all of your post except the point about internet points: GP’s complaint wasn’t over internet points, it’s about the lack of nuanced discussion and tribalism.

I’ve been on-and-off bored with Lemmy for this reason.

Lemmy (the software and devs) is really cool and deserves praise for a neat platform with a neat idea.

Lemmy (the overreaching community) just hasn’t been very appealing. A lot of the same reasons why I didn’t like Reddit are here and I’m not sure how to feel about it.

Building on the lack of nuance, I think the obsessive complaining about Meta/Threads, $politician, $billionaire, Reddit, or X (formerly Twitter) is among the worst. It’s the same spattering of complaints basically week-to-week, with comment threads parroting the same 8-word uninsightful, exaggerated, or incorrect takes. There’s entire accounts commenting 15-30+ times a day comprised entirely of these “doom-and-gloom” one-liners.

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