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.
What do you use Strava for? I tried it for a bit until realising it doesn’t actually offer anything useful, just publishes your training habits to the world which is kinda creepy
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
That’s primarily why I use it. It’s fun trying to improve my times
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
Yeah absolutely, this could easily be replicated on an open source / federated app
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
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.
You can lock down those settings, so you’re able to use the data to benefit your personal training.
I’m part of a club that uses Strava to organize rides, but what Strava is doing will impact every other app that syncs with Strava, and that’s just a major PITA.
For me personally I just want like a thing that will tell me my distance automatically, and of course my time.
For >90% of my runs I just do familiar routes and could get away with a $5 watch timer tbh. But running with friends it’s expected someone will gps it
I see. The Suunto watch/app does all the fancy data stuff for me, so having Strava on top of it is pretty redundant
It also has some social media bullshit on top, but luckily it stays out of the way and iirc all trainings are private by default.
Thinking further though, would be great to see pinetime or other Foss project develop further to provide similar features as Suunto, Garmin and other sports tracking focused devices
Yeah I might look into getting a watch, I just carry my phone currently but it seems all the apps are pretty invasive
I don’t use it any more, but back then I liked the segment thing an the sharing of actibity wit “friends”
If there was a frferated option I would use it forvthese 2 reasons