Re: [Official ANN]FREELABIT|FBF|Up to 15% Interest|Community Driven|POW|Cryptonight
Most miners only support stratum so they can't directly connect to the daemon. It's best to set up your own mining pool software such as node-cryptonote-pool, point it to your daemon and mine to it.
node-cryptonote-pool indeed did the trick without too much hassle:
Good bye high pool fees
To say thank you feel free to post your FBF address and I'll match you an airdrop ammount.