On the competing part, I'd emphasize that we live in a real world of scarcity, so there absolutely is competition here.
There are limited numbers of processes that can run on our servers, there is competition for the electricity that powers them, and on over to the pure time commitments of sysadmins, moderators, and most importantly, users.
There is absolutely competition here. Heck, my writing this post is because this effort outcompeted my looking to do one of dozens of other things.
I think it's really worth acknowledging this.
@volkris @jaschop @dch there really isn't a scarcity of compute cycles. There is a misallocation of them, due to capitalism.
If there was a scarcity of compute resources, we wouldn't have billions of trillions of cycles burning up just to make bitcoins or serve ads on the Internet.
Pleroma can run for 5-10 people on a Pi 3 easily, for example. A person's phone could run a single person instance, with no issue.
@volkris @jaschop @dch You can have infinite resources, and still have misallocation, if there is one person (Or a handful of people) controlling access to said resources.
Which is the situation at hand, today, thanks to #capitalism