You can connect Alby to your own node. That's what I'm doing. However, it is apparently very easy to set up a node on the Alby Hub too. I think @Undisciplined is doing that. He might be able to give you more information.
Alby has a pretty nice step-by-step guide. They're still having growing pains and a bunch of us got our channels force closed, shortly after setting up Alby Hub.
I still like it and think it's pretty simple, but if you don't need to set it up immediately, waiting another week or so, would probably be wise.
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