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by vmednis 2851 days ago
If I understand correctly the "people around you" is decided purely by distance. In that case is there anything done to avoid seemingly nonsensical conversations for a random observer? With this I mean if two people are in distance close enough to chat and the third one (the "observer") is only in range to one of them would the observer only see half of the conversation.
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Interesting. The hidden node problem for people.
I thought of this issue. No plans to address this now. Geofence could be a good solution though.