Considering your average printer is a piece of shit that needs to be replaced quite often, yes, using a website is probably more energy efficient.

Or any numbers if they are all fired too.

To be fair public transit would be a lot less appealing if you would meet people like Trump or Musk on there.

You can advertise your stuff on those platforms but actually publish your content on your own website.

It is almost as if content creators were all warned that would happen if they host everything on centralized platforms outside their control but nobody listened.

Well, for one thing for consciousness to be real there needs to be some form of consciousness and LLMs don’t have that.