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  • Effective November 11, the updated API agreement introduces three key changes that provide Strava users with greater control, security, and a consistent experience: 
    
    Stronger Privacy Standards: Third-party apps may now only display a user’s Strava activity data to that specific user. Users will continue to have access to their personal Strava data across apps connected to our platform, though there may be differences in how this data appears.
    
    Data Use Limitations: Our terms now explicitly prohibit third parties from using any data obtained via Strava’s API in artificial intelligence models or similar applications.
    
    Protecting the Strava Experience: Additional terms have been added to protect Strava’s unique look and feel and functionality, helping users easily distinguish between Strava and third-party platforms.
    

    Not that I use Strava or think anyone should, but the title is misleading no? It still allows third-party apps to still show you your own personal data and bans third-party apps from using that data in any machine learning.




  • Yeah… but I think it’s too late for Mastodon to be popular. Bluesky is already at the tipping point.

    Mastodon just needed to sign you up to their own default server, power users could sign up to different ones and they would have still got the regulars in the door. Mastodon also needed twitter feature parity, something Bluesky also managed much faster.

    Once people are in and settled, then they would start asking questions about that URL after their username, people would slowly become comfortable with the federation and understand it.