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 no you don't if you manage your own channels. See AlbyHub 
 No I mean to use Alby account custodially  
 Yes Indeedy - lets outline the cases where you start as a lightning n00b and need a nice path to becoming fully self sovereign: 
Starting point - Custodial Wallet - once you are ready to wean yourself off of this you can go to step #1 below:

Self Sovereign Step #1  - Wallet in the Cloud - AlbyHub -  it is free. I've been using it for a while in beta. Its not perfectly sovereign but its a good stepping stone to go from custodial to learning channel management to running your own self sovereign node. It is by far the least steep learning hill to transition away from custodial.  


Self Sovereign Step #2 - more 3L33T
if you want to run a super light lightning node, set it and forget with some tech skills required -  there is this option here with LNBits + phoenixd but you'll still have to put up your own capital in bitcoin and spend about $5/mo on VPS, you need 24/7 uptime, this isn't gonna work with unstable internet. https://github.com/bitkarrot/lnbits-phoenixd/
Another option is to use Voltage but the price can be a bit steeper for serious usage as it jumps quickly from free to $25/month tier. the plus is you don't have to manage all the upgrades but you still need to have tech knowledge to run it


Self Sovereign Step #3 - Super 3L33T
Run your full self sovereign lightning node, e.g. CLN, LND, Eclair on your own hardware, using your own self sovereign internet satlink or whatever plus your own bitcoin capital and self manage it. This is a tall order for most 99% of plebs unless you're a tech junky, and even as a dev its time consuming and steep hill learn, less so to run after you have learned.  pricing and setup may vary. 
 its free to use AlbyHub. You just have to manage the channels and its not that hard. you keep your own seed words, they run the cloud stuff for you 
 You and I don't mind doing that but the majority of people won't do this. 
 Alby is at least trying. When I interviewed Kwinten in Fall 2023 and he told me about the AlbyHub plan, I felt it was a great idea, at least one company is not running away or bending the knee to KYC.

No other company is trying something, they're just giving up. 

Now That's just defeatist. 
 Alby Hub is a post-facto of Lightning.Pub 
 Never heard of your project until now. A brief look seems awesome. We need more solutions like yours and Alby so we aren't shoehorned into just one solution. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. 
 This is a nice implementation but the problem is that it only works with LND. 
 
 It's modular so an adapter wouldn't be too hard, would accept a PR 
 You are welcome to demo your project over at the plebnet.dev discord, perhaps someone there might be interested in contributing to your project. Just hop in and ask a mod to create an event. 
 Right. It's commendable that they're still trying to come up with sustainable solutions. 
 If you pay them by credit or debit card, or bank transaction they will KYC you anyway.