It makes sense especially if you want to receive. To receive you need inbound liquidity on the channel, if you open a (unbalanced) channel yourself you have outbound liquidity and can't receive anything before you sent something out first.
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Is there a way to open an unbalanced channel and then just get inbound liquidity by sending the sats to myself.
Just had another thought. I’m waiting on another Core Lightning node of mine to sync. Once it’s done, I can just open a channel to myself between the two nodes right?
Yes and yes.
Sending sats to themselves is basically what people do when they "rebalance" channels (and not loop/swap out/in sats from off- to on-chain, or Liquid).
Opening a channel to your 2nd node does only connect your 2 nodes, if none of them has any other channels, you're in the same position as before.
Ah yes. That makes sense. Thanks for explaining. 🤙