"These features rely on tons of our user-generated data—the fuel of the platform... Crucially to the business, we users perform this crucial labor for free and without any say in the direction of the platform."

And this is why I stopped contributing to #MapyCom (and pretty much all proprietary platforms) and started contributing to #OpenStreetMap and #WikimediaCommons last year.

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

#Komoot #komooted

The fight for #digital justice is not more important than fighting #ecocide, #genocide, #war, #fascism, and the #climate emergency. But as @pluralistic writes, “Free, fair, open #tech is a precondition for winning those other fights. Winning the fight for better tech won’t solve those other problems, but losing the fight for better tech extinguishes any hope of winning those more important fights.”

Quote from "When we get #Komooted" on the sale of #Komoot :

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