#LN is a network of channels. to open a channel, you have to create a smart contract on-chain. #Lightning is #Bitcoin
Nobody is stealing your #sats, retard. You're the one, choosing to pay the fee. DON'T pay any and wait until some miner adds the transaction. They won't, because other people are willingly setting the fees higher than you.
If there were no fees at all, retards like you would be sending #sats to them selves, constantly. Filling be blocks forever, while the rest of us would be waiting.
I'm sorry, nobody is going to work for you free of charge. #Bitcoin isn't a communist paradise.