How traceable is a monero zap if its publicly coming from that person trying to be private?

Hurts the brain

Well this is Nostr...Lightning heavy environment. I don't think most would deny using Bitcoin it has it's advantages. There are some clients that support Monero but you wouldn't know if they were tipped (or tip) in Monero because it doesn't broadcast that over Nostr. I tip and get tipped Monero fairly often here.