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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Deleted my Strava account today.
It was mainly me posting my TR workouts and going to Strava to look at them. I thought “Why am I doing this? I can just look at my rides in TR”.
So goodbye Strava. Now to unsub from Veloviewer (another subscription where I go look at work I’ve done that I can see on another platform).
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I cancelled my sub and set everything to private about a month ago and am ignoring it. Just need a couple of more obscure apps to talk with eachother and it’ll be gone.
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There’s this page called Tapiriik, it offers direct synchronization between different services.
I enjoy it for the routes it suggests in IOS.
I still use it for tracking my workouts, but it seems every few months something previously free is now locked behind a paywall. The most recent being the fun map choices (I would usually choose the Pride one).
Really, at this point I’m using it to track gear usage and wear.
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I share the odd ride, so others know I am still riding. But maybe only once a week rather than every day. I turn off the automatic upload from Connect most days.