David Pinkerton on Nostr: Most bot/notification setups use Telegram or Signal. Both require trusting someone ...

Most bot/notification setups use Telegram or Signal. Both require trusting someone else with your metadata.

I set up SimpleX CLI in Docker with my own relay. E2E encrypted, no phone numbers, no accounts, infrastructure I control.

Wrote up the setup including the gotchas (expect scripts for headless user creation, socat to work around localhost binding).

Blog: https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/simplex-cli-docker-setup/
Repo: https://github.com/AusDavo/simplex-cli-docker