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Strava is enshittifying. Is there any alternative on the fediverse? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a move similar to reddit or twitter, Strava is restricting API usage, and other policy changes.

I think an alternative to strava, which is also federated, would be really cool

EDIT: I know you can record teacks and keep them offline and there is plenty of ways to do so. I think the main aspect of Strava is the possibility of sharing the activities with contacts on strava itself. Like for peertube or pixelfed, the fediverse has the potential to allow any user to share what they like and the other users can see, boost, comment, from their mastodon, pleroma, froendica or wharever accounts. The fact that someone wants to share a track is his own business.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Back when I was using it it was cool to track my progress on different segments of my rides. I could see my progress over time on different sections like a particular hill or whatever. And they also have king of the mountain badges that you can win by being the fastest over certain sections, so it offers a little bit of competition and gamification

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's primarily why I use it. It's fun trying to improve my times

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The king of the hill part makes sense I guess, fun to see you being on the top :D. for the rest my watch app already does that sorta stuff + coaching and whatnot so not very interesting.

Honestly I kind of assumed other sports trackers would have something similar so you wouldn't need Strava for it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah absolutely, this could easily be replicated on an open source / federated app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the first and more important part would be to have FOSS fitness tracker, at very least in software.

Pinetime and infinitime are doing great work on the smart watch side but it's lightyears behind something like Garmin or Suunto

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm still using Strava, but I also use FitoTrack which is available on F-droid. It was my replacement for Samsung Health, since they started sharing my health info.