There are several issues that dance around these two separate but interrelated features. But they either seem to be for google maps, or are closed for various reasons without (as far as I can tell) successful integration.
It would be extremely useful to have a:
I've included the related issues for referencing.
Closed: works as designed
3.0
Leaflet API
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
You can already use the user location as mapcenter, so that works as well. You can than just refresh that site every X seconds. If it is a view, you can even do it by ajax to save performance.
I don't see any option to center the map on the user location in a Leaflet view. Where is that setting?