No you can definitely send an MPP payment across multiple first-hop channels from the same node.
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Oh, thanks for the correction!
Thank you very much nostr:npub18803czg9yhsjkcut498mrxr0n0q035qxrh7kknsuzh72h2n7gd3szp48lq nostr:npub185h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qcswrdp nostr:npub1vadcfln4ugt2h9ruwsuwu5vu5am4xaka7pw6m7axy79aqyhp6u5q9knuu7
I find Lightning super interesting but I am not fully there yet, still a lot to learn and read. Glad I'm on Nostr for this though