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People managed just fine in the past. Word of mouth. Fliers. Set up a lightweight static website. You don't need 70k people to be able to press a 「いいね」 button or leave a comment. People can use text messages, IM, email, and their own facebook groups, twitter groups, or whatever to spread the word. You can keep physical ledgers of people you organise with.
There's no reason that a group of 70k people couldn't be thousands of groups of handfuls of individuals all working for a similar cause.
Since you're such an expert, why don't you start organizing protests this way? See the many people you can reach in the modern world without using social media.
The No Kings Protest is the largest protest in US history and likely globally. We have not seen any protests of this scale organised via traditional means before (that's not to say it can't happen, but you know how Chinese whispers goes)
For a point of reference, there were 8 million people present
Good. I heard that they are pretty milquetoast on the demands but I'm glad people are protesting.