Any time I see a #GM, #GN, #sunrise, or #sunset post, I think to myself that person just exposed their timezone, through which their general location could also be approximated.

I wonder if a technology could exist that would publicly sync user posts to each individual viewer's location. This OPTIONAL solution would require the poster to choose a so-called "Flex Timezone" posting option.

E.g.

I live in UTC+42069, but I want my posts to show up at the same time relative to the viewer, or even if there is an option for X number of hour delay.

I.e.

I post GM at 8am my time, and a viewer 3 hours behind does not see the post at 5am their time, but instead at 8am their time (11am my time).

Ideally there would be a public facing "Flex Timezone" watermark to signal an intentional post privacy as to not cause confusion to the viewer.

This should translate to some sort of Zero Knowledge Timezone (ZKTZ) solution.

Would any #nostriches like this solution, or is it not worth the time to develop?

#asknostr #grownostr #privacy

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I suppose all the #lakeland #florida #cfl #snowbird from oxfordny #newyork #cny that i use on a lot of my notes is bad, huh? hmmm.

F it, put every state in all your posts

Valid question/concern and proposed solution.

What I’ve found is those of us that greet our community at the beginning and end of day are not as concerned about “location id” as the rest.

Another solution is simply using a VPN in particular with multi hop and choosing countries not close to one another.

For me personally, I’m already doxed enough “out there” that me saying GM isn’t going to end me up in jail…not that I think LOL.

But certainly if I became more concerned about it, I might stop doing that or create an anon profile then it wouldn’t matter especially if I used a VPN as anon.

In short for me, it’s a micro risk and I’d rather error on the side of being friendly than concerned if I’m going to be identified or otherwise get into trouble for saying good morning