Yeah… for now.
But there are already other clients on iOS that have zaps on notes.
Lots of people still missing this nuance and also not quite appreciating what makes nostr apps so much more powerful than regular apps.
Will has said that Damus will still report the zaps on the notes. So Damus users can see all the zaps that Android, desktop, web users are doing.
Notes posted via Damus can still get zapped by users on other platforms. Because notes are a protocol.
Apple’s position isn’t sustainable. It’s like demanding a fee every time a safari user sees an ad. Will take them some time to realise this though. nostr:note1m5ugme84gdcvfh253tcrext538qqa2yqxnhq324fgku0a3rs64rqrl46ea
What use case did this foundation have in mind?
It’s an oxymoron to me, that human rights activists want some 3rd party authority to censor them.
Maybe I’ve misunderstood?
My point is that many other iOS apps will have note zapping (there are already others), and that their reviewers will deem that OK.
It’s a bunch of regular people doing their regular 9-5.
This is where power of nostr comes in, as a Damus user I benefit from other apps, my notes can still be zapped from other apps on other platforms, and also from the other iOS apps that are allowed zaps.
Long term the platforms aren’t really going to be able to stop nostr apps and the pragmatism of developers.
Anyone remember this? 
Will, lots of other apps will get into iOS App Store with zapping included. They will be reviewed by other reviewers who will be quite happy about zaps.
The process is discretionary and will drive you insane if you’re expecting fair treatment. It’s just an occupational hazard of App development. It sucks.
Don’t let Apple’s powerful consumer brand raise your B2B expectations of Apple. The App screening process is run by regular people, not judges, sometimes they have a bad day, sometimes they bear a grudge.
But mostly it’s just regular people trying to keep their job and get paid.
I would want to avoid a reviewer making detailed negative judgements of my App in writing, because this can be very restrictive of what they allow for you in the future. Consistency bias is real, future reviewers will read all the notes before they talk to you.
Best not to think of it as “Apple” and instead to think of it as John, App Reviewer #411. Especially in correspondence with them.
The company cannot make contradictory statements, but people at the company can say contradictory things. I would avoid saying “look what Apple did!” in public too. That makes it much harder for other reviewers to give you a good decision.
You want to pin the bad decision on the smallest entity possible ie the reviewer, and not on the whole company. This makes it much easier for them to correct in future.
Be prepared for when they allow a different iOS app with zaps, into the App Store. Unfortunately that’s quite likely to happen.
Whooo, just had an email from OpenAI about GPT4-32k.
“We're in the process of granting access to the 8K and 32K engines at different rates, depending on capacity. As a result, you may receive access to them at separate times.”
I already have access to the 8K engine, and seeking 32K. Anyone here used the 32K engine yet?
Exactly this, better strategy here is to be pragmatic and not pious.
Can be pious inside the FOSS domain of total freedom, but where properties and apps are built on, or rely on, proprietary tech stacks some pragmatism is required.
I don’t think it’s wise to shun the proprietary ecosystems. Ramps and bridges are required to reach the users of these ecosystems.
More ramps + more bridges = more traffic to FOSS.
Damus is an excellent first mover, the presence of a nostr app in iOS App Store is a bridge to nostr. Plenty of people finding it and crossing it for the first time this week.
Play the long game. nostr:note14cj22l202tk54eh8r7eqllc7kyen28up2wgnu04s7ja3qvspxkkq34wh02
If in the future, one of these embryos was gestated and born, and went on to adulthood, would you maintain that position?
Would you deny them all their usual rights?
You might be advocating for something worse?
40 years from now, they might be living among us?
The more I learn, the less certain I become.
I remember thinking something like…
“ Wow, humans went from horse and cart to hitting golf balls off the surface of the moon in a single human lifespan. Surely my time on Earth won’t see such dramatic advances as that. “
Well I’m half way though, and things are getting weird. Starting to notice the compounding.
Technologies like synthetic human embryos does really weird stuff to demographic projections and assumptions about long term interest rates. You could make some really weird assumption sets for strategic modelling and they’re not crazy.
Consensus probabilities about the future are just dissolving into tail scenarios. It’s a real challenge. What do you teach your kids?
Exactly.
I wonder if the distant future is actually populated with machine minds and biological machines?
Cells can build anything, it’s just their only objective so far has been survival.
This seems like major news…
🚨 Synthetic Human Embryos Created in Lab 🚨
No sperm, no egg required.
The apps aren’t the destination, they are doors.
The new protocols are the destination.
Build as many doors in as many places as possible, if they barricade some doors, just build more.
Eventually everything will bleed into the new protocols.
Just keep building endless iOS apps, endless Android apps, endless web apps, endless PWA’s. Build endless web services and endless desktop services.
Doesn’t anyone get it yet?
Nostr is a social media hydra, it cannot be killed, you cannot be banned, every entry route in leads to the same accounts, the same followers, the same network.
The more access points nostr has, the more resilient it becomes.