When you want to receive payments to a private channel, invoices need to contain a routing hint telling the sender which node the last hop of the payment should go through. Without the routing hint the sender has no idea where to route the payment.
That seems like a pretty big problem, then, since Alby encouraged all of their custodial users to switch to Alby Hub and open private channels.
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37 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 18h
Maybe Alby Hub includes the routing hint. Else the LSPs wouldn't work properly I think.
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One way to find out: create an invoice from Alby Hub and paste it into https://lightningdecoder.com/ See if it contain one of your peers with private channels.
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Yes but their software MUST include those route hints.
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