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.
Good bike computers like Garmin’s allow GPX export so HW compatibility is there. It’s a few manual steps but you can make the process automatic for example by syncing your HW tracker to Tapiriik (15+ brands supported), which then can auto-download GPX files to your computer via Dropbox (or without Dropbox if you run it locally), and then you can auto-upload those to OSM with one of these scripts running on your machine.
Cool, thanks!