Self-hosted and frictionless are not compatible terms, particularly in Lightning.
The most user-friendly is probably Alby Hub, by far, which is what I use on my Start9. However, you still have all of the same friction points of every self-hosted lightning node that come with having to manage your own channels, their liquidity, choosing quality channel partners, etc.
And then your Tor connection goes on the fritz, so half your channels are offline until you can get it back up, hoping your channel partner didn't force-close on you.
The constant cry is that we need to make this more straightforward for normies so they can self-host their own lightning infrastructure. Sorry, but that's not possible. Some of these things can be automated, for sure, but that just introduces a different set of friction points when the normie gets a much larger than expected fee, because they had no idea what inbound liquidity is, let alone that they ran out of it.
The most user-friendly is probably Alby Hub, by far, which is what I use on my Start9. However, you still have all of the same friction points of every self-hosted lightning node that come with having to manage your own channels, their liquidity, choosing quality channel partners, etc.
And then your Tor connection goes on the fritz, so half your channels are offline until you can get it back up, hoping your channel partner didn't force-close on you.
The constant cry is that we need to make this more straightforward for normies so they can self-host their own lightning infrastructure. Sorry, but that's not possible. Some of these things can be automated, for sure, but that just introduces a different set of friction points when the normie gets a much larger than expected fee, because they had no idea what inbound liquidity is, let alone that they ran out of it.