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Yesterday I finally set up my Alby Hub, after much nagging by Alby. I'm running it on my permanently online machine where I also run my Bitcoin node.

All I know is that after pushing the button to "establish your first LN channel", suddenly my balance went 18+k sats down (network fees, I guess? No explanation, no options, nothing)

Also I now seem to have to be on top of "balancing my channel" (or what?) with whoever they picked for me, because I had no option to pick anything...

I don't see any upside whatsoever to any of this shit, or at the very least the onboarding process and the explanations about what the fuck is going on at every step suck massively.

For the record, I've always had ZERO interest in Lightning. I don't think it makes any sense, and I don't think it's Bitcoin. I did it just to have direct experience, so I can bitch about it.
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siggy47 1y ago

I think something went wrong. You didn't need to open a channel. The Alby hub just connects to your node. It seems you may have been setting up a second, stand alone node.

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hh 1y ago

I've no idea. They try so hard to "make it easy" that they don't give any help.

I do have my Hub running, with several peers connected to it and I can see the channel open. And my extension wallet and Alby Go wallets are connect to it too and I can see the shared balance in both.

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hh 1y ago

Forgot to say - I just followed the 5 steps in the set up. One of them was "open your first channel". I clicked on it, and it did that.