I think that was a vibed artifact. But yes the idea is to make this feature where a bluetooth connected user could detect a new peer on the mesh and forward them messages they might have missed. I don’t think this is a reliable feature yet though.
on location services: gps isnt actually used in the app, but the bluetooth module needs it which is why you have to give that permission. Might be possible to not require it, but that’s a task for a #goose