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…

  • SigmaticsEnglish
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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

    • dreikelvin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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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

      • SigmaticsEnglish
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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

        • dreikelvin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          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.