Kagi is a viable choice for individual people, but it's not an answer for the concern of how to get traffic to visit your site and click on your affiliate links (which is what TFA is about). Kagi works well for users precisely because it's small enough that no one benefits from gaming its algorithms.
Um, I don't know when that would have kicked in because I haven't noticed a difference. Reddit still shows up whenever it's relevant, and the Forums lens turns up even more Reddit if you're worried you're missing any on the initial search.
