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!

I use Firefox as my daily driver, and have for years, but there’s no way Firefox is anything but doomed with Mozilla at the helm.

The mismanagement of money and ludicrous compensation for those at the top and chasing endless side ventures that all fail doesn’t bode well for them.

I get it, there’s anger at the article, but anyone who actually thinks Firefox has a chance at returning anywhere close to their old glory is holding onto groundless optimism.