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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

How would you have communicated without someone owning a server and paying for it?

I'd probably have posted on one of the many voluntarily run forums that existed before reddit swallowed everything.
How would you have communicated without the telemasts installed and maintained by the state, which are now privatized and slowly falling apart?