When we started bikepacking in 2010, handmade bags, no Garmin no Rules and before Gravel meant anything, I never thought bikepacking and the fucked up nature of techbro internet business models would ever coincide in a major way. With Komoot, it did.

This is a super thoughtful piece, I would recommend anyone to read not only for bikepackers, but anyone interested in commons in digital spaces. Also proves again why bikepacking.com is just such a gem of a space on the web.

#bikepacking #enshittification #komoot#KompassStattKomoot

https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

🚲 ... et l'expression "se faire komooter" pris un nouveau sens :

https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/ (en anglais).

Je n'attendais pas à voir Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) apparaitre sur un des sites de #bikepacking que je suis habituellement 😯

#komoot #velo #gravel #fedibike #enshittification #capitalism

In case you missed it, there is now a Fediverse alternative to Strava called Wanderer:

➡️ https://wanderer.to

There is a public server list at:

➡️ https://wanderer.to/servers

To sign up on a server, click on "Create Account", then "Login", then "Make One".

If you're running your own public Wanderer server you can add it to the list at https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer/discussions/361

Techy people can self-host using instructions at https://wanderer.to/run/installation

#FediTips #Fediverse#Strava#Komoot#Outdoors#Hiking

wanderer: Decentralized trail database: #wanderer by @flomp is a new, #opensource, #decentralized #trail database where you can upload tracks (or import them from #STRAVA or #Komoot), create or share routes, and connect with communities through #ActivityPub-powered #federation.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/07/09-wanderer-decentralized-trail-database/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial#SwissGIS