Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. (also missing!)

At some point, there will be some sort of drama involving kbin. It could be constructive drama or not; who knows.

When it happens, whatever it is, lots of people will direct themselves to wikipedia to learn about what this website is. We all know wikipedia can be very influential. Even in the absence of drama.

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    And also bear in mind that if someone writes a crappy enough kbin article now and it gets deleted, that’s going to make it harder to get a kbin article started again in the future. I know that’s not how it’s supposed to work in principle but unfortunately it’s how it works in practice.

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      Pleroma still doesn’t have a wikipedia article because of this, despite being one of the oldest AP-enabled fediverse services. It’s been deleted twice because some moderator didn’t like the quality or number of sources.

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        Wikipedia doesn’t like articles that are basically ads. Articles should be written from an unbiased standpoint using independent sources. If an article has been removed because it’s basically self promotion, then mods will be more careful about reopening it again.

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          Might it be easier to start by adding mentions of Kbin on another Wikipedia article? I’ve read a bunch of news articles about Kbin and most of them aren’t thorough enough to really base anything off of, or they’re just wrong. Most people writing articles about Kbin don’t seem to have used it enough to really give a full picture of its capabilities or history