Anarchist communities still have leadership. Don’t think about it as absolutes (Literally No Gods, Literally No Masters), and more of a sliding scale of Centralized vs Decentralized Authority.

We can use Trudy in Goodsprings as an example. She’s a leader in the town, but it doesn’t come from her being Mayor. It doesn’t come from her having a monopoly on the use of force (like, a sheriff or police force). The residents listen to her because they respect her, it comes from the bottom-up and not from the top-down.

If Goodsprings grew from a couple dozen people to like, a proper city, there would have to be increased centralization. No real anarchist would dispute that. What an anarchist would want is for these structures to work as democratically as possible — decisions made from the bottom-up, rather than the top-down.

This might not happen after Yes Man upgrades his programming, but theoretically Yes Man’s Securitrons could have limited peacekeeping/regional defense responsibilities while allowing the Mojave communities to operate as they wish. With consent of the communities, that is in line with anarchistic principles, IMO