If electromagnetic waves didn't follow an inverse square law?

I was thinking of a hypothetical universe in which electromagnetic waves decrease in intensity with the distance instead of the square of the distance. What kinds of effects would that have on that universe and how would electromagnetism need to be different for this to be the case?

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