I don’t know if it still exists or if you have to pay for it now but I used to use Photobucket.
It’s more like:
Anytime you go on a bike ride you type up, print out, and mail a short article to all your friends saying where you went and what you did. Often they send you back a postcard that says “Good Job”, sometimes there is extended correspondence, other times you send out the article and nobody sends you back anything in the mail.
One day an address of someone you don’t know appears in your rolodex so you start sending them the articles too. You don’t have to send anything to this person, you can take the address out and throw it away and keep your articles limited to friends.
~fin
I’ve never had much stress about followers on Strava. Usually it’s someone I know IRL or someone that did the same event as I even if we didn’t meet. If I get a follower that is a stranger, doesn’t live in town or nearby, or is someone who is following thousands of people/a member of hundreds of clubs/etc. I can just force unfollow them and don’t worry about it. I’m pretty quick to block, too.
I’ve found a lot of inspiration from the activities people post on Strava. BITD it helped me find routes, events, and group rides. Now I mainly use it as a journal for my big rides and events and enjoy having an information hub both myself and other people can reference in real life.
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+1 to this. Couldn’t agree more.
I’m quite happy with that actually.
The main reason I follow people on Strava is to see what they’re up to. When people follow me I assume it’s a similar intention. I’m not looking for or expecting validation from them.
If I want social interaction I’ll get it in real life. I dont even have notifications in Strava enabled.
Your comment makes me think that when you’re in a group chat, if not every single person in that chat responds with an emoji reaction to your comments, you remove them from the group chat 
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Are there people on Strava who follow you but have no viewable activities themselves?
I’m pretty much the same. I mostly follow friends and like seeing what they’re up to. I occasionally give kudos but I’m just not in there that frequently
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On my feed there’s occasionally follow requests folk from places I’ve never heard of. When I click on their profile the follow X thousand people and have no activities themself. I don’t feel inclined to let them follow me.
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Outside a few Pros I only follow people I know and deny other requests.
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I’ve never done that, why did you do it?
Not any more and it’s always been people I know.
Yes. Like they just quit. One I tracked down, saw their other accounts, and hoped they were okay as there was no activity at all. 
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There was an article out somewhere about a woman trying to find a husband (or hookup) on Strava for riders in her area. I thought ‘Oh great, there goes the whole app’, and did get a couple requests, but when I saw they had no activity, unfollowed. Like there are people on Zwift who have requested to follow me and have no activity in the past year, and are at level single digits, so no. I had heard of people getting targeted with harassment on Zwift, and possibly Strava too. I don’t need harassment, and don’t need ghosted/ghosting riders, so that’s when I started dropping people that have no or very little activity. It just looks kind of sketchy. But I have been concerned about the Strava followers that appear to ‘disappear’. I mean, yeah, I had that happen when I was big on Peloton, people would bail, sell their bike or trash it, never to be seen again. So people disappearing isn’t such a surprise, but a couple followers were really very active, and then - nothing… And I do have some followers that are a bit older than I am, and they never interact, but it’s just amazing to see what they are doing, and how much better my game has to be to hope to compete with them. Seriously!! 
They are no joke!! 
(Please slow down so I can catch up)
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It might be an Urban Myth but it goes when the smoking ban was introduced in Ireland, folk were actually taking it up (smoking) so they could get sent outside the pub and meet folk!
Yeah, Strava clubs are often full of foreign type people. Even for small local clubs/groups, it’s not uncommon to see a lot of foreign people. And some of them are in like literally hundreds of other clubs. Makes me wonder why, and what their game is. They with the most clubs crashes the system? Gets a medal? Not sure what that means, but looks suspicious. I was an admin and dropped a lot of people like that, and I guess people were actually riding against them in the weekly club standings. To each their own?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone… 
Flikr is still around as is Google photos. You can just share albums with whom you want.
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Gosh, this will make me stay for sure!
Just 25% of people have achieved a weekly streak this year. Be part of that crew and you’ll unlock special data in your Year In Sport recap . Already have a streak? Give those stats even more oomph with this challenge.
And, does that mean that 75% of their ‘people’ could bolt? Wow… (Depending on how many subscribers did a weekly streak, etc)
Which leads directly to one of the all-time great uses of AI, and maybe one of the most perfect: an eternal, unintelligible conversation between Slavoj Zizek and Werner Herzog chatbots.
Nice. That reminds me of a video where two friends put their phones on speaker, one called their aunt, one called their mother, and chaos ensued on sorting out who called who
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Strava art (not mine).
Original Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/12/02/strava-art-run-toronto-mccabe/
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