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Damus⚡️
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Apple has contacted us and scheduled a call to discuss the role of zaps in more detail. Will keep y’all posted.- Damus will be removed from the app store in 14 days, apple says zaps are not allowed on their platform because they *could* be used by content creators to sell digital content. This is right before we’re about to give our talk at the oslo freedom forum on how decentralized social
- Banned by CCP because they hate free speech Banned by apple because they hate free money
- Looks like we are getting removed from the appstore even after updating our app to make it clear that no digital content is getting unlocked when users are tipped. Users are only ever tipped after posts are made, the idea that content is being sold is nonsense. We will be filing
- Their suggested fix is to use apple pay. Sure, I'll use apple pay when it supports censorship resistant, peer-to-peer payments to anyone in the world. Maybe start with peer-to-peer first?
- Good thing we invented zaps as an open protocol so that it will still work on desktop, android and the web across multiple different clients 💅 nostr doesn’t care. lightning doesn’t care. We will be releasing a freedom edition on macOS desktop that restores note zaps. We will
- Submitting to the App Store 👀
- Damus has to remove the zap button on posts because this is considered “selling digital content”. Only zaps on profiles are allowed. This cripples damus pretty bad, but you can still zap at least 😕
- Don't miss our token airdrop!! Just kidding, we're just zapping bitcoin to random folks, join us!
