It’s possible to have a remote follow button what asks for the domain of the person’s ActivityPub instance.

https://docs.searxng.org/

You completely missed the main point: if the Kagi response would have been what you wrote I would agree, but they replied with something much worse, and that’s solely on them.

Some interesting details about Kagi: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638

tl;dr might not be such a good idea to use.

Just because we don’t have weird double standards stanning for one imperialist aggressor while vilifying the other, doesn’t mean we align with neocons. But I guess having principles and sticking to them regardless of where the party vanguard wants to go is over the head of most ML sheep.