Yes it's completely useless, so is the irc channel to get coins. No idea how I'm supposed to work on lightning without a testnet or signet :/
For lightning work I basically just use mutinynet Signet from @OpenSecret . It's great and they have some decent amount of lightning nodes on the network.
blog on it:
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutinynet/
Faucet:
https://faucet.mutinynet.com/
Block Explorer:
https://mutinynet.com/
blog on it:
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutinynet/
Faucet:
https://faucet.mutinynet.com/
Block Explorer:
https://mutinynet.com/
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