Sorry, my OP wasn’t very clear in my hope. By not historical, I should have said “distant historical, more current so I could understand how communism would interact or be influenced by today’s technological advancements and influence”.

Are you saying that we’ve yet to see a long-established communist system in recent history so all examples will be less than representative, since they are tainted by the previous systems or abolished prior to being able to fully establish the system?

I can only imagine how muddled my part of the discussion is and I’m sorry for that. I’m basically starting at ground 0 and don’t even really know what to call what I’m looking to learn about yet so I call things by the wrong terminology, making it hard for you guys to help me.

I think I would swap all usage of “Lemmy” for “Hexbear” in the OP as that instance is not an accurate representation of the whole of Lemmy. Perhaps choosing one of the general Lemmy instances would give a more accurate representation.

Meanwhile in communist China: