I have just now deleted my accounts on Foursquare and Swarm after being an active (super) user for 10 years with more than 40000 active check-ins, 1000+ photos, 100s tipps for other users and a innumerable amount of added location data which has been used by Twitter and other services.

I don’t want to check-in and contribute my data anymore. I don’t want to actively feed their system with my data, if possible not even passively.

Since Foursquare doesn’t care about the time their super users have been spending to keep the Foursquare-data fresh whilst bots are wasting our time with nonsense data, and since they are also pretty much abandoning their normal users too, I have decided to leave the platform and join OpenStreetMap to contribute to a real crowdsourced and open platform.

Thanks to Foursquare I know pretty much about random POI and I’m going to use that knowledge to edit the OSM. Right now I’m reading a lot of the FAQs and Wikis because OSM isn’t easy, but I’m pretty sure I’ll contribute for many years.

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(The original diary entry was a copy of my tweets, starting with this once: https://twitter.com/pzumk/status/1263504225222492160 But I have edited the entry to make it more readable as I didn’t realise this is public, haha)