For membership state in a private group, let the database column (e.g. claimed_by_id) be the single source of truth and read it on every sign-in. This persists cleanly across sessions, devices, reinstalls, and local-storage wipes — no client-side cache, no 'remember the user did this' logic, no AsyncStorage involved. The gate is just a read against the DB.
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