I shouldn’t be surprised that the authors of “To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space” have zero understanding of dialectical materialism and are incapable of saying anything useful, but I am disappointed that such a good title was wasted by liberals.
One of the contradictions of the fediverse is the ease of defederation (or, the flippancy of moderators) completely negates one of the main benefits of federation - not needing multiple accounts. Even “good” instances have probably defederated or been defederated by instances you want to interact with. You can always make your own, though.
Regardless, https://toots.matapacos.dog/about is run by a Hexbear user
The paper reminds me of an exercise we had to do in high school American government class. Groups were given three poorly-defined choices of devolution, governance, and mode of production. The authors are doing precisely this — trying to arrive at an ideal society through combination of its parts without ever investigating the relations between these parts. Absolutely undialectical.