Originally Posted by
Fiery
Strava makes it easy to sync to, but impossible to sync from. They did not make migration easy from their end, they pretty much did the minimum to make it possible at all. It makes sense from a business perspective, but please let's not pretend that they aren't intentionally trying to make it easy to join and hard to leave.
you’d be hard pressed to find any business that would make migrating away from them really easy imho.
That being said, in Strava, there’s an option to download all your activities in one time. And there are many cycling apps (both local and web based) that allow you to batch upload very simply.
in fact, if you install golden cheetah, you’ll see that you can “sync” from Strava, while many of their “competitors” only allow uploads from golden cheetah.
Having never used the social aspects of Strava, I’ve downloaded and deleted my activities, but let’s call a spade a spade...