People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…

Yes.

It also gets some free publicity by claiming to be federated/decentralized without the user having to make any actual choices in regards to a server (because there isn’t really any choice).

Also, fun fact: Kagi owner believes only criminals want privacy and GDPR doesn’t apply to them, because they said so!

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html