Not only do I not give kudos for indoor rides and the like – I tend to only follow people who curate their feeds. If you air your chaff exercise in public, you are a knob and are jettisoned from my feed. Filling other people’s feed with your indoor rides, commutes to work, or 1km walk from the hotel to the cafe is only one step better than coughing up phlegm and showing the contents of your hanky to someone.
My simple rule for making activities public on Strava is if the activity is worthy of adding a photo it’s interesting enough that friends and club mates might want to see it in their feed.
With the virtual death of most other social media as a usable way of keeping up with friends, I do think Strava ‘could be’ a brilliant advert fee way of keeping up with what people you know are up to. It just takes a tiny bit of effort for people to bother to do a touch of curating…which does seem to be beyond a lot of people – not sure if it’s laziness, incompetence or narcissism. Strava could really help by just making everything private by default and make users make it public with button presses. They have enough users now that although public content would go down, I think scrolling and interaction with what is public would rise massively.
