Great question. I wanted to do the same thing and I ran into the same issues trying to find small channels. In my experience you will need to put up a fair amount of liquidity. ~10M sats.
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Post in Plebnet and see if someone is willing to open a channel of the size you are thinking. Also for receiving payments you need to have inbound liquidity so someone can open a channel to you with their liquidity at their end.
Yeah exactly!
All I can think is maybe to suck it up and have one big channel to someone well connected, then find a bunch of plebs like you nostr:npub1ken9vpendzyqvnk0w0hyv4de5h9qx40f68qtwkt4fu5exdrh9e8q6f6vnq and do tiny channels!
Then again, I think the overall problem with tiny channels is that they become unbalanced very quickly, so you end up spending sats rebalancing. 😬
I strongly recommend not doing small tiny channels. They are a problem with frequent rebalancing. Best is to join a community and see if folks will open to you.