> But I don't think methods like Mastadon or Reddit really facilitate this. Reddit offers two features for supporting intentionally-small communities: first, y

> But I don't think methods like Mastadon or Reddit really facilitate this. Reddit offers two features for supporting intentionally-small communities: first, you can restrict posting to accounts that have been manually approved (although I think voting is still open to anyone with a Reddit account), and secondly you can make the subreddit private such that only approved accounts can see its contents (which solves the aforementioned voting problem). As for Mastodon, that's a matter of setting up your own topical instance and restricting who can make an account.