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by Jemaclus 4372 days ago
Who cares if I fake my location? If I'm in Berlin but I say I'm in London, does that really detract from anything? I can still talk to people, right?
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ggiaco 4371 days ago
It could ruin the experience of having conversations with people who are actually nearby?

Proximity makes communication more relevant and Spiral makes it easy to filter your feed by distance around you.

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dam-buty 4371 days ago
It may depend on how you define local. For example, when i lived in Mexico, "local" news for me might have been news from my hometown in France, but GPS location would not let me see that.

Also, you might wanna consider the middle ground of just using "coarse" positioning, which is all you need to identify the city. GPS sensors cost an awful lot of battery life and should only be used for apps that need precise positioning, imho.

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