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I'm not familiar with Zulipchat specifically but unless you're running a community with thousands of concurrent users then you could easily host most self-hostable chat platforms on a low powered devices (eg Raspberry Pi) on a home broadband internet connection.

Obviously this is a less than ideal solution, but my point is you're not reliant on AWS / OVH / Digital Ocean / whoever you choose for hosting.

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You are still reliant on your isp however.

Don’t forget your electricity provider as well. Of course you could run a solar system and mesh WiFi.

Even if you run a solar system with mesh WiFi, you're still reliant on getting food and clean water.

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Incremental improvements are still improvements, even if you still rely on some people for some things.

Not if you use a distributed system like IPFS.

There is a technical workaround for any form of censorship - the real question is how difficult it is for ordinary folk to us.

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