Strava is an absolute nightmare to use. My feed is absolutely chock full of ads and dog-walkers. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy they’re taking a 0.2 mile walk around their block and logging their progress, but I don’t need to see it. Nike, TrainerRoad, Zwift, Peloton all have giant ads every time their users upload an activity. And I don’t understand it because it’s not an ad-supported network. Like I would happily pay to have all this shit hidden. It would be extremely simple for Strava to fix this, which would just be to provide me with a simple filter for what type of activities I’d like to see. The fact that they haven’t done so, a long time ago, leads me to believe that they simply don’t want to, for whatever reason. Plus they’ve already begun to enshittify by breaking integrations with third parties.
Are there any good options for this?
E: to be clear, I’m asking about the social aspect of Strava.
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There is a great community effort at https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces
You can directly upload there with StreetComplete or Vespucci. Or exports from any tracking app that gives you a GPX file (including Strava I think). Otherwise, don’t really expect FOSS-minded people to share their trips.
This looks like a bunch of random activity logs. Where is the social aspect?
That’s the neat part, there isn’t. Post about your trips where you want, you can then refer to the OSM trace.
People have given consent for you to improve OSM with that data though. For example, one GPS trace can be pretty inaccurate (especially under a canopy where aerial imagery also doesn’t work) but you can compile a dozen (get them with a location-specific query) and get a very good average. You can message people about those edits, and add notes.
Also, StreetComplete gives you achievements for completing quests and uploading traces. They are automated but it makes it look like actual people are grateful. Of course most people who use OSM will never actually thank the contributors but you’re still doing a great service by improving the map around you.
How do you have a “community” without any social aspect?
I can’t even see it on a map? All I can see is a white line. Seems like it could be a good product to integrate into another platform.
How do you record with that? Is there some sort of hardware integration?
Peloton doesn’t have ads?
What do you call these?
That is peloton content.
…yes, exactly. The brand of tool used is not relevant to the activity. Users are not adding those photos, they’re added by Peloton. Not to mention the activity names.
You don’t see Garmin or Wahoo adding in giant ads for their products when syncing rides.
Wahoo absolutely does this.
I stand corrected.
