> but I like the history of where I've been
This is kinda the deep down reason I still use it. I sort of passively compete with the friends that use it, especially when I'm traveling, since I get to check into a ton of new stuff. The list of friends that use it is _very_ static. It's been the same group for _years_ now, w/o a single new person (and I don't think anyone's dropped). We're not close friends either. All in all, it's a fascinating experience in that regard.
I hadn't thought about that, but my experience is the same: no discernible changes to my Swarm friends in years.
Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual
by arkanciscan on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:31AM
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Same here. The Venn diagram of people I follow on Swarm and the people I've communicated with in the past five years doesn't overlap at all.
Making the coins utterly useless irritates me, though, and I'm kind of surprised they dropped the whole notion of partnering with businesses to offer specials to regular customers they had in the pre-Swarm days. While I presume they pivoted into selling location data because the partnerships just didn't make them enough money, I'd hope the partnerships weren't losing them money, and I think they really drove usage.