Currently Alby Hub is connected with the account and it links them together and loads some LSP info from the backend for example. Currently the account is required (most people also want the ln address etc.) But in a future version it will probably also be fully stand-alone.
That's not what the marketing account posted above...and "probably"? 😡 Alby seriously needs to be better 😔
I said "probably" because some features will be missing. E.g. our channel recommendations, or the channel auto-pilot, or email notifications. Those features then will have some static defaults or will require you to do something manually (like choose an LSP, setup the LNURL, monitor, ...) You can check GitHub it's all there. Don't take the word here, I invite you to check the code there (and contribute issues and pull requests)