Your scale argument is convincing as for global impact, but it would be interesting to know what is more energy-consuming at similar scale, as there are arguments for both sides (mainly the one of this article vs the overload of advertisement); so as to determine where it makes more sense ecologically for an individual to interact, maybe whether one refraining from voting posts and comments would have an ecological impat, that kind of things.
Your scale argument is convincing as for global impact, but it would be interesting to know what is more energy-consuming at similar scale, as there are arguments for both sides (mainly the one of this article vs the overload of advertisement); so as to determine where it makes more sense ecologically for an individual to interact, maybe whether one refraining from voting posts and comments would have an ecological impat, that kind of things.