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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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Have you tried Komoot ? Maybe it meets your needs ? Uses OSM as a base, O edit OSM as well around me as well.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

After ther recent acqusition and firing of a lot of staff, it might not be the best alternative

Edit: article with more details can't find a non paywalled version and not really any other pages that discuss the firing, just the acquisition

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Never heard of it. It's federated?