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> I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music. Or fitness, or messaging, or movies, or TV shows... Every platform nowadays is a way to l
by acwan93 6y ago
> I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music.
Or fitness, or messaging, or movies, or TV shows...
Every platform nowadays is a way to lock you in. Strava makes exporting data exceptionally difficult and has API rate-limits. I’m sure there’s a technical reason, but still sucks.
One of the tech journalists I follow has advocated the need for legislation for data portability to avoid shenanigans like Spotify has. Much like the phone number portability in the mid-2000s or interoperability after Ma-Bell AT&T was broken up, it sometimes takes legislation to enforce an open Internet. I think GDPR was one of the first steps towards that.
- RandallBrown 6y agoI don't know when the last time you checked was, but downloading your data from Strava is very easy. https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export#Bulk https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Expor... I just downloaded all my data and it only took about 5 minutes for them to send me the link. (I have about a year of data.)
- acwan93 6y agoOh nice! I haven’t tried to in a while, and have only seen it recently with services that connect to Strava.