Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps
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Strava is altering the deal.

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.

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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

    • shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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

          • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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

            • Tug@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months 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.

  • jecht360@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I doubt it. If there was a Federated option, there would probably more security concerns considering all the data.

    Best option is probably to use something other than the Strava app to record activities and keep backups up the activities locally.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Best option is probably to use something other than the Strava app to record activities and keep backups up the activities locally.

      The problem really isn’t people looking for an alternative to Strava, it’s that so many other apps rely on Strava, so people may need to look for multiple alternatives to other apps, just because of what Strava is doing.

      This move guarantees that I’ll never pay for Strava. Ever.

      • muelltonne@feddit.orgEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Exactly this - I really expect third party apps to start adding additional data sources in the next month. So maybe you will be able to connect Veloviewer to Garmin directly without strava or they will allow you to simply upload a zip with GPX tracks

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I have this really cool app called “ride the damn bike” which operates completely offline.

    • lgsp@feddit.it@feddit.itOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Why are even using piefed and the fediverse? There is an app called “write with a damn pen” and it is completely offline!

      Do you see the point?