I WEAKLY RECOMMEND these apps (first recommendations I've made yet) -

* Stagenet version of Garnet by developer retnull / retrnull, of unknown npub

* Nostrudel.ninja by nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr

* Amber by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5

* Nos2x by nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

* Nos2x-fox by nostr:npub168nqgewzkamnyh53x0epqrftkv2pdh9gzr6558v4vetzr3w7uxfs63926e

Why are these WEAK recommendations?

To you, maybe all my recommendations should be weak because I am not a coder, cryptographer, or mathematician, and cannot review code for security issues at all.

To me, these reasons:

* These are all on GitHub without even backup links to the work of nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl

* Garnet - using Monero for tips might break its anonymity, the bounty on a monero-based nostr client might be a deep state bounty connected to the IRS bounty for cracking Monero, it's weird that there's a Monero-based client before a dogecoin-based client. The availability of a Stagenet version at least shows self-awareness of this being experimental 🤙

* Nostrudel.ninja - I can't get discovery feeds to work, I see others report other issues, the project could sorta be considered "stretched thin" but that's also exactly what got it in my recommendations

* The others - I'm paranoid in general and none of this stuff is designed the way I would design it so it's hard for me to strongly recommend anything at this experimental prototype stage.

These aren't the only apps I would ever suggest using, or use myself, or onboard someone with, but they are the first ones I've noticed seeming more worthwhile (or less untrustworthy) than others.

As of currently Monero tipping on Garnet is completely outside of Nostr (no tipping communication with relays at all) until the community figures out a proper way to do this without hurting user anonymity/privacy (if even possible)

Right now it's basically the same thing as seeing someones Monero address they posted on their profile bio and sending them Monero. Just made slightly more convenient.

It does still need a lot of tidying up though so please comment on the bounty page or github with issues you experience please.

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Sorry I should say it is this way by default but I think you can optionally communicate with relays to display that you tipped someone if you want

Yeah, I got it to display a tip I sent myself on stagenet, just no notification. It won't let me test with you because you're not on stagenet I think

Yea I'm not on stagenet I'm messing around with mainnet version

Just as a heads up, I don't recommend using public tips on the mainnet, or using the mainnet for tipping on social media in general before an implementation has had many years of good track record and/or been thoroughly analyzed by the best math people

Yea I don't plan on doing it normally. Doing on a throwaway account and throwaway wallet with very small amounts for testing.

someone created a on-chain zap event, probably a terrible idea for privacy to use tx_extra in Monero tips: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphn7e50zja4x4ke0lf05mwq60kqjezakdx92qrw0rem2md27l4j9qqsx7pdayygap2ltl5x2dj0470cervxj5xp98zp2msusrx7mv78g4mg773lss