I mean, one of the central goals of communism to abolish ownership of the means of production.

Software used to produce something of value is a resource that in a communist society should not be owned. The only way to achieve this is to let everything be opensource.

So communists clearly like the free software movement, whether inverse is true is a matter for debate.

This once again shows how stupid the idea of copyright is.

The mentioned library genesis project is such a great idea and i use it extensively. It makes scientific articles, papers and cultural works available for everyone, regardless of income.

I understand where these writers are coming from but in my opinion they are working against their own interests here.

I mean currently most of the profits go to the big media coorperations anyway, are we sure ther isn’t a way to fairly pay the artists AND make their works publicly available at the same time?

Yes, but they chose that route rather than for example expand their admin-team.

They would rather remain a small tight knit community than expand for fear of loosing their core values.

I’m disagree with their aproach but understand their reasoning. In the context of a instance war however I think they’d avoid conflict and thus remain impartial.

A group of people who call themselves anarchists and can be reasoned with does exist

I think we both agree on that. I just wanted to point out that that does not mean every anarchist can be reasoned with.

instead yelling what you perceive to be The Truth at them until they agree with you

Again I am with you on that, but no one here advocated that. If I say “they don’t want to hear the truth” I am not saying that I tell them they are straight up wrong. If I debate politics with someone I try to point out logical flaws or present my reasoning. If they don’t find my reasoning relatable that’s fine, most of the time we still agree on a lot of other points.

I had to learn that the hard way. Some people just like to argue for arguments sake.

No, I’d say you have to look at it more like eating habbits. You won’t convince someone who’s in his 50ies and all his life only ever ate fastfood to eat healthy. It’s objectively better for them, deep down they might even know it, but the force of habbit is just to strong.

There is a best choice, but not everyone want’s to hear it. You can’t convince everyone and have to pick your battles.

Well, there are the fascists(exploding-heads.com) and the communists(lemmygrad.ml) for a start.

You have some national instances such as lemmy.ca, aussie.zone, feddit.de, feddit.nl, feddit.uk and feddit.it.

Beehaw is busy building their ivory tower by defederating anyone with a slightly different oppinion so i’d say they are the centrists or maybe the swiss.

Other than that the rest is pretty much the same, if you ask me.

They don’t tend to last very long because of US interference. But if you don’t use time as a merit but other measurable factors such education, social security or healthcare, I’d say they score at least en par if not better than SocDems.

This is so on brand. Especially the “I lack the discipline to regulary sit down and read a book, so I tell people I have ADHD even though we all know no licensed professional ever diagnosed me”-attitude.

Laughing about dead bourgeoise can never come soon enough.