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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I have a start9 server, so I could host alby myself and skip their fee. That's appealing. But what's not do appealing is, I lost my password to my server, so I need to redo it. 

Or I could use walletofsatoshi and just always have VPN on... That's probably the easiest
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, WoS is always the easiest on mobile, and USG can GFT since they are unequivocally hostile to americans these days
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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Have you used it? It's telling me to register an account with an email. Is this really necessary? Cuz I see a lightning QR code already
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 hm yes i think an email is required for alby in general
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 a cloud provider needs a way to message you and because of certain stupidities in nostr they can't rely on using nostr DMs
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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So annoying... Yet another single use throw away email to save
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 oh, wait a sec... to run the hub?

if running it on start9 requires an email it's probably to send you messages about the state of it
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Alby can you enlighten us - self hosted alby hub needs email? what for?
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 by default i get emails from my alby hub telling me that it needs upgrades and when that is finished to unlock it again
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Comte de Sats Germain | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Gross. Email that I have to actually pay attention to. I hate email.
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 haha, yeah, i hardly get any emails these days either, and many of them i don't want either, and have to unsubcribe from them

but what other way are you gonna get alerts? SMS? lol
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Alby | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It used to require Alby Account to launch it, since few releases it doesn't anymore.
You can run the Hub without having Account at Alby.

You can receive e-mail notification when it's linked (check in Hub's "Connections" tab)