Lightning wallet for few sats

Good morning all,

I want to start to use Lightning network for small payments with friends and first try to test it a bit. I got tip 500 sats on reddit and I set up Phoenix wallet which I understand is the best option if not running my own node. But to create a channel a minimum fee of 3000 sats is required, is there a better option for really small amount of sats ? Blue wallet is custodian but for small invoice of few thousands of sats is it better ?

Thanks for you advices !