How does this compare to YikYak (or the German equivalent 'Jodel')?
Seem technically very similar.
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#32How does this work if a person that is 500m away from me is currently chatting with someone 1.2km away… will it seem to me like that person is talking to himself (because his chat partner is out of my reach)?
Looks like. At least in Ingress (location based game) there is radius [client-side-]limited chat and it looks exactly like that :)
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#33So... Jodel?
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#34If it is exactly 1 km you could triangulate to find someone's location.
A program to do that would do a bisection search along a line (faking coordinates for the location of the device) to find the point on the line where you transition to seeing the person's messages. Then, repeat along other two lines in different directions. Each transition point gives a circle of 1 km radius on which the person is present, and the one point shared by all three circles is their location.
This could be mitigated by rounding off coordinates to be coarse enough that it doesn't give their precise location before calculating the distance.
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#35I would be careful about this. Could definitely be used for bullying by kids - would suggest you come up with a strong mechanism/policy for banning users!
You could say the same for a lamppost (that I can attach a photo with a message to) and just about every other means of communication where the sender is not known (regular mail, for instance). Technology can be used for good and for bad, this tech is no different in that respect.
The lamp post is part of a wider local 'ecosystem' that includes ways of dealing with abusive messages attached to publicly-visible objects.
Communication apps like this, not so much.
This is why service and software makers are considered to have more of a responsibility to be concerned with misuse of their platforms. (ETA:I mean platforms, as in publicly-accessible stuff on the net, that's under their control.)
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#36I figure you're just rounding latlons to 2 decimal places and putting people in buckets?
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#37If it is exactly 1 km you could triangulate to find someone's location. A program to do that would do a bisection search along a line (faking coordinates for the location of the device) to find the point on the line where you transition to seeing the person's messages. Then, repeat along other two lines in different directions. Each transition point gives a circle of 1 km radius on which the person is present, and th…
Tinder once had this exact problem. You could find users' exact locations via triangulation, since the API reported an exact distance from your location: http://blog.includesecurity.com/2014/02/how-i-was-able-to-tr...
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#38Is there anything similar but browser based ?
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#39Anonymous messaging has proven in practise to be full of cruel gossip, hate speech, and bullying. I can't see a positive use for it, really.
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#40Anonymous messaging has proven in practise to be full of cruel gossip, hate speech, and bullying. I can't see a positive use for it, really.
It's also proven to be full of insight, creativity and honesty.
As a pretty active consumer of anonymous content, I'd hate to be without it now.
Not to undermine your valid points but it is a pull medium, not a push. You're free not to consume.
I expect twitter to end up in 2 tiers, the verified default view and the anonymous dark forest (what we have today) you can opt into.