What are you talking about? The lightning network is permissionless, you open channels with other nodes and then you can send funds across them, the other nodes

What are you talking about? The lightning network is permissionless, you open channels with other nodes and then you can send funds across them, the other nodes can't take your funds. Unless you mean signing up with strike or some centralized service in which case the old adage "not your keys not your coins" applies.