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.