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I've been somewhere in the big Democrat-anarchist-libertarian nexus since I was a teenager. I've definitely noticed that negative depictions of libertarianism are 90% based on the "if you don't want something done by the state, you must not want it done at all" fallacy. The core concept people don't get is that a state is a critical point of institutional failure, and libertarianism/anarchism of all different flavors mostly just advocate non-coercive means to accomplish the things a state does that we still do want. Honestly, it's the same basic concept of centralization vs. decentralization by which Reddit failed and Lemmy offers a better alternative - the state centralizes coercive power susceptible to abuse, which is a fact of our daily lives (read: lobbying).
People brush right past these core concepts and try to make it about single-issue things like guns, abortion, etc. - they have no idea what they're talking about. The problem here is all about what methods of social organization are ideal, and how the power of the state can be abused for private gain.