• MaybeALittleBitWeird@lemmynsfw.com
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    6 months ago

    Restricting access would probably not be successful. It would just fragment and wall off significant sections of the already small communities.

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      6 months ago

      That is absolutely what would happen. I’m a mod for a sex positive community on reddit and we tried this. Once a user managed to get into the private / closed sub they no longer wanted to post in the main / public one and that caused all kinds of problems.