Didn't know @lehtimaeki had a YouTube channel!
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Didn't know @lehtimaeki had a YouTube channel! Subscribed right away. I've been thinking about leaving Strava too, but since I already use Meta services and other corporate platforms, I've stayed, mostly because their API still works. I use it on a small scale to save my runs to a cached JSON file that I can pull into different apps I've built, and I still enjoy the social aspect.
I use around 20 different running apps out of curiosity, and honestly, there are no real alternatives to social running apps. 99% of them are for tracking. If I had the time, I'd build "my own Strava" or even a decentralized running app. But for now, I'll stick with Strava, it works fine for me. I like my "running feed", one single source of truth for all my runs.
For reading, I switched to the Bookshelf app from Goodreads years ago (https://getbookshelf.com). I lost the social aspects of reading, but I don't really miss them since I read alone anyway. There are platforms like Hardcover, StoryGraph, and Bookwyrm, but each of them seems to lack something, whether it's a proper app, features, or decent UI, so I stick with Bookshelf, which is completely local and has a nice user interface.
The way I see it, we have to live with these cognitive dissonances: either choose independence and stay mostly alone or accept the corporate walled gardens for the social features. I use both, roughly 50/50 commercial and open source apps. For the commercial ones, I try to keep control of my data as much as possible by keeping backups, saving to JSON/log/database, using APIs, and so on.
Maybe we should post more runs to Mastodon? The problem is, I just don't have the time or energy to share every run on social media with all the details. Something always ends up missing.
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Didn't know @lehtimaeki had a YouTube channel! Subscribed right away. I've been thinking about leaving Strava too, but since I already use Meta services and other corporate platforms, I've stayed, mostly because their API still works. I use it on a small scale to save my runs to a cached JSON file that I can pull into different apps I've built, and I still enjoy the social aspect.
I use around 20 different running apps out of curiosity, and honestly, there are no real alternatives to social running apps. 99% of them are for tracking. If I had the time, I'd build "my own Strava" or even a decentralized running app. But for now, I'll stick with Strava, it works fine for me. I like my "running feed", one single source of truth for all my runs.
For reading, I switched to the Bookshelf app from Goodreads years ago (https://getbookshelf.com). I lost the social aspects of reading, but I don't really miss them since I read alone anyway. There are platforms like Hardcover, StoryGraph, and Bookwyrm, but each of them seems to lack something, whether it's a proper app, features, or decent UI, so I stick with Bookshelf, which is completely local and has a nice user interface.
The way I see it, we have to live with these cognitive dissonances: either choose independence and stay mostly alone or accept the corporate walled gardens for the social features. I use both, roughly 50/50 commercial and open source apps. For the commercial ones, I try to keep control of my data as much as possible by keeping backups, saving to JSON/log/database, using APIs, and so on.
Maybe we should post more runs to Mastodon? The problem is, I just don't have the time or energy to share every run on social media with all the details. Something always ends up missing.
@rolle As you may remember (or not), I abandoned Strava a few years ago, and this is the only place I post about my runs socially. It's pretty straightforward for me.
You're right that everyone has to decide where their line is; I'm no longer willing to share my watching or reading habits with companies (although I do post them to my blog, and discuss all of that here too).
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@rolle As you may remember (or not), I abandoned Strava a few years ago, and this is the only place I post about my runs socially. It's pretty straightforward for me.
You're right that everyone has to decide where their line is; I'm no longer willing to share my watching or reading habits with companies (although I do post them to my blog, and discuss all of that here too).
@WTL I actually don't care that much about the social features there, I just enjoy the visuals and stats. That's probably why I didn't notice your absence. Still, I do browse the runs here on Mastodon, so that's kind of the social aspect for me. Best of both worlds, I guess.
