Slowly getting sick of Strava premium ads and since last week, notifications went to shit. Has anyone ever tried to come up with an ActivityPub-based Strava alternative? I’d be happy to know…

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think you’d want your sensitive location data federated around the world to anyone that wants to see it

    Privacy isn’t really something that exists in ActivityPub, that’s why it’ll probably never happen

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      1 year ago

      yes that would be my only concern about it. but strava also has challenges and other public posts, which could be public. location-based data of your activities should always stay private and encrypted, of course

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        1 year ago

        And there you have the problem. How do you share such activities with a circle of followers only, for example? This is where the cryptography becomes complicated, where performance suffers and it all falls apart. When it’s just easier to do it centralized, and there’s no problem with Strava like with reddit and Twitter

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          1 year ago

          Are you telling me we haven’t been encrypting and decrypting decentralized data in the last ten years :p

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            1 year ago

            Not sure what you’re referring to, but it sure hasn’t reached mass adoption as part of a distributed system afaik

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              1 year ago

              Suppose you have a point there. If data was laid bare, even if encrypted, it is not safe at all. That is true. We all still use email, sending it mostly unencrypted through the ether. There is stuff like PGP but rarely anyone uses it. Thanks to quantum computing, it will soon be useless.