Sure, but it offers at least some protection.

By low karma I mean -100 types.

The traffic on Reddit is massive for highly populated subreddits. And these subreddits that restrict low karma account activities aren’t doing it for any profit motive.

I understand Lemmy isn’t really big enough for this to be a concern here.

Unfortunately, on reddit - when subreddits restrict new posters or low karma commenters, they’re just trying to mitigate the impact of trolls and bots and people making new accounts. It’s not about being elitist.

Yeah, I often just forget to upvote generally. Although this could lead to argumentative posters making troll posts, getting engagement and trending just because people reply to them.

This may not be an inherently bad thing given that low karma accounts tend to be trolls.

I’m not sure a significant number of people are interested in movies and not TV

I am. I mostly only watch TV. I definitely know lots of people who only watch movies and only care to follow movie updates and discussions.

I’m not opposed to the separation of movies and TV in principle. I’m mainly just concerned about how long it would take to rebuild that community.

I mean movies isn’t going anywhere, and one of the communities here - moviesandtv despite the higher subscriber numbers is kinda dead.