Apple aren’t objecting to tips. They’re objecting to the zap button underneath each piece of content. And they’ve had a rule that specifies you can’t do that for some time. Their rules are maddeningly complex but this one is right there in plain sight: image

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Once again, this is the key point of objection. Notes are not NFTs. Notes are not owned if lightning is tipped directly to a LN address. Tips happens peer-to-peer outside nostr. Nostr client simply provides notes, and information of the poster for all others. The tip is 1) completely optional 2) 100% go to receiver of the gift As explicitly stated in the text you shared.
What happens if a simple like triggers such a "monetary gift"? What if you have a bot running somewhere, listening for your likes, and each time you like a note it finds the LN Address of the author and tips some sats. Would Apple ban likes? Would Apple even whether this is happening or not? View quoted note →