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Alby is great, yes!
For anyone who want to earn serious sats I don't think it matters too much if the solutions you use to receive sats are self-custodial or not, as long as you can pull it onchain say once a week, or even through other payment gateways into fiat or goods.
It seems to me that its not possible to set up Alby desktop without opening a channel?
For now I've pulled what I had with Alby custodial into Phoenix, then onchain into Cake. Around 1100 sats in total, if I got the numbers right.
Ease of use and workflow is by far the most important with the focus I have!
Will probably get around to testing out Alby desktop for real once I decide that the whole project is going forward, I need to see it grow steadily until I invest what I have onchain now...
Hey man! Happy to see you excited about this journey and embracing value-4-value and... self custody!
After all, you gotta pay something for using the Lightning Network: either with your data & risk (custody) when using a third party, or with sats for the infrastructure and owning UTXOs - when noderunning on your own. Full sovereignty comes with some cost and effort, but with #AlbyHub we're trying to minimize it. It's not that big price, but unavoidable today - and if you run your own device, the amoung goes to cover onchaing fees and some fee charged by an LSP.
Make a decision yourself if it's worth it, we're happy to help!
Also, we're not sure if anyone but Fountain enables custodial wallet for podcasters today (?)