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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[–] aprifjckdkekddk@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I started working on a federated implementation of this this week actually.

Would love to read what functionalities you'd see for such service.

For now I'm implementing activity logging, sharing of activities in groups (kinda like Lemmy communities), public or private as well as a statistics and the ability to post traces and create challenges to share.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Try integrating with OpenStreetMap Traces and Tapiriik for ease-of-use. Recommend running your own instance for the latter. Not necessarily for the minimum viable product but consider this into the future.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

The main limitation I always had with Strava was limited activities. I know there are off road onewheelers who log their routes as ice skating, for example.

It would also be nice to save points of interest that aren't linear routes. E.g. nice vantage points, businesses that accommodate group rides, public water/toilets/power.

[–] Ulrich 3 points 1 week ago

I mean at a minimum I would like to see what type of activity and an interactive map of the activity, as well as a way to engage with and FILTER content.

Anything in addition to that would just be a bonus: sharing and exploring routes, any kind of health data I can log, integrations with hardware from Garmin, Wahoo, Shimano/Hammerhead, etc.

For now I'm implementing activity logging, sharing of activities in groups

Probably would be a good idea to call them "clubs", similar to Strava.