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For a while now I’ve been looking for an alternative to Strava because I don’t feel comfortable anymore sharing my location publicly. I don’t remember why it was good idea anyway back when I started using Strava many years ago. As you may know, I’ve deleted most of my other social media accounts. But Strava was little bit different because I want to keep all the data I’ve collected during all these years and keep using all the statistics, like how much I’ve ridden my different bikes etc.

I’ve been self hosting things on my own home server for a while so I started looking for self hosted alternative to Strava. I found Fittrackee, which claims to be simple activity tracker. I tested it for a while, but it was too simple and missing some features, like the ability to differentiate different bikes. So that’s why I didn’t see it as an alternative to Strava. While testing it I didn’t figure out an easy way to import my activity files from my bike computer to Fittrackee, so I was just importing from Strava via a shell script, automated by a cron job. But later I figured out a way which might have worked for me. But I had already moved on to the next alternative to test.