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Because I've been here from day one and the meetups started with links dropped in the thread, which turned into a persistent Void Club link that wasn't used much and adding names from the thread to get in. There was even talk of making it invite+ to prevent randos ever getting in because of someone getting reported by one for a nazi avatar, but that was deemed too prohibitive and everyone was encouraged to prevent random friends joining on them instead.

In other words, for a long time, the only way to get in was from the thread.