«Komoot is neither a moral failure nor an outlier but the capitalist system of value extraction working exactly as intended for the platform owners. Whether they’re called Komoot, Strava, AllTrails, or Garmin, for-profit corporations squeeze and sell us out when we give them the opportunity. […] capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet.»

It's why we need community-governed and -owned infrastructure.

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

When We Get Komooted

Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

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@gedankenstuecke
Thanks for the super interesting article! I didn't knew about wanderer.to but it does look promising.
@ste_tuf I've been playing around a bit with it under @[email protected] !