The problem is liberals don't even grasp the concept of a left libertarian. It's an oxymoron to a liberal. They immediately assume you're a right winger unfortunately in America at least. Then you have to just say you're a socialist and then they think you want to put them in the gulags. Then you say well I'm the anarchist kind and then they think you're going to kill them for liking money or something.

My primary complaint is liberals believe the right when the right try to say what libertarian means, and I think liberals should instead be educated on the word but they are often can't be convinced , and it's often too much energy to even try.

(I'm including the modern liberal and conservative in that definition of liberal).

You're just factually wrong. The word 'libertarian' was first used to describe a political ideology in 1857 by the French Anarcho-Communist philosopher Joseph Déjacque specifically to differentiate his ideology from the mutualist anarchism of Proudhon.

The term 'libertarian' took off in popularity in France in the 1880s when the French government began to suppress anarchist newspapers. They just switched to using the word "libertarian" rather than "anarchist" to get around the censor. This is exemplified in the weekly newspaper founded in 1895 called The Libertarian (Le Libertaire in French).

The anarchists in the Russian Revolution and in the Spanish Civil War called themselves interchangeably 'anarchists', 'libertarians', and 'libertarian socialists'.

The term didn't come to be associated with classical liberalism and right-wing ideologies as it is today until the middle of the 20th century. It was a specific attempt by right-wing American political philosophers who held an allegiance to Locke-style 18th century classical liberalism, but felt that the term "liberal" had become too associated with left-wing (within the American context) politics.

Here's a quote from 1955 from the libertarian writer Dean Russell:

Many of us call ourselves "liberals." And it is true that the word "liberal" once described persons who respected the individual and feared the use of mass compulsions. But the leftists have now corrupted that once-proud term to identify themselves and their program of more government ownership of property and more controls over persons. As a result, those of us who believe in freedom must explain that when we call ourselves liberals, we mean liberals in the uncorrupted classical sense. At best, this is awkward and subject to misunderstanding. Here is a suggestion: Let those of us who love liberty trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word "libertarian."

Here's a quote from the libertarian writer and philosopher Murray Rothbard from the early 1970s:

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy. 'Libertarians' had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over.

Here's a quote from Ronald fucking Reagan in 1975:

believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism

Modern libertarianism in the context of American politics is synonymous with classical liberalism and conservatism (up until the MAGA movement co-opted conservatism and just made it synonymous with fascism). But in the US prior to the middle of the 20th century, and outside of the US until much more recently, libertarianism was synonymous with anarchism and was very much a leftist ideology.

You... should really educate yourself on what libertarianism actually is. Just because the root word "liberty" is in there does not mean it is a socialist concept.

It seems to me that @dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com actually has a better grasp on the historical context of "libertarianism" than you.

"Libertarian socialist" was what you called collectivist/communist anarchists in French.

I think you missed their point. Contemporary US style libertarianism has taken over the term, historically it meant something very different. They are arguing that people should start using the word again to mean things other than US style libertarianism. They are very obviously not confused about what libertarianism actually is given their knowledge of the history of the term; ironically it seems like you are unaware of this history and are doing something akin to what you accuse OP of doing.

I do agree though that people are generally very ignorant about this sort of stuff and often latch onto words to describe their politics without any genuine understanding of what those words actually mean.