SimpleX Self-Host Script, Tutorial, on Monero Provider

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Wave@monero.town⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

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cross-posted from: monero.town/post/1084048

SimpleX is a private encrypted messenger that creates new identities for each conversation. However, as we pointed out in a previous video, when you first install the app, it’s all the developer’s own servers. This has metadata and centralization risks. We are here to help.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com is a completely different firm than SimpleX (although we share the same first word). We just released a tutorial video with a self-host script for any Debian/Ubuntu VPS that you can use to easily self-host a SimpleX server: video.simplifiedprivacy.com/simplex/

In the tutorial video, we taught how to use Kyun.host a Monero focused free speech provider in Romania that we recommend! However, you can use any provider.

Here is the script on our self-hosted gitlab on Kyun with an Iceland domain: git.simplifiedprivacy.is/…/simplex-self-host/

If you do not wish to self-host, you can add our SimpleX servers to your app for free:

smp://BgQRXMpC_pOpm2eAWvwFAvz6o1pJMu8y6_LaxZYxAFg…

xftp://YLfpIjjRjJdOHKSPHCxhHMUmB_auPkxSIkfo76cH7F…

Reach out to us if you’d like our help to setup many OTHER services or complex configurations/support at SimplifiedPrivacy.com

Join our SimpleX Group Chat, people discuss Monero and privacy in general:

simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2F…

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LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Leave it to the cryptocurrency people to turn a simple tutorial into an ad. You could have pasted the whole script instead. In fact, here it is:

# !/bin/bash # Setting up docker apt repo # Add Docker's official GPG key: apt update apt install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg # Add the repository to Apt sources: echo \ "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \ "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \ tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null apt update # Install docker from repo (~450MB,2Min) apt install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin # Verify docker install #docker run hello-world # Install SimpleX from Docker Hub (~300MB,2Min) mkdir -p $HOME/simplex/{xftp,smp}/{config,logs} && mkdir -p $HOME/simplex/xftp/files docker run -d \ --name smp-server \ -e "ADDR=smp.YOUR.DOMAIN" \ -p 5223:5223 \ -v $HOME/simplex/smp/config:/etc/opt/simplex:z \ -v $HOME/simplex/smp/logs:/var/opt/simplex:z \ simplexchat/smp-server:latest docker run -d \ --name xftp-server \ -e "ADDR=xftp.YOUR.DOMAIN" \ -e "QUOTA=50gb" \ -p 443:443 \ -v $HOME/simplex/xftp/config:/etc/opt/simplex-xftp:z \ -v $HOME/simplex/xftp/logs:/var/opt/simplex-xftp:z \ -v $HOME/simplex/xftp/files:/srv/xftp:z \ simplexchat/xftp-server:latest

… And that’s all you need.
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- Saki@monero.town ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Leave it to the cryptocurrency people to turn a simple tutorial into an ad.
  
  I’m from the same Lemmy instance monero.town (technically a mod?) and can see your point. Initially I was vocal about perceived link-spamming, advertising this SimplifiedPrivacy thing; at least a few users there were/are feeling the same way, as you can see e.g. here. So please don’t lump crypto (esp. Monero) users as a single kind of people.
  
  Like @leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone pointed out, some of info provided by this user (ShadowRebel) can be useful. Perhaps some people prefer a video to text. Monero users tend to respect freedom (of speech) and advertisement is not forbidden in Monero.town anyway. Perhaps you can understand that this does not mean “the cryptocurrency people” are the same.
  
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  - Wave@monero.town ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    So please don’t lump crypto (esp. Monero) users as a single kind of people.
    
    I was expecting childish reactions when I shared this post. But that doesn’t matter, if only one user has benefited from it, it was well worth it.
    
    Only two days and we already have at least two new servers:
    
    smp://BgQRXMpC_pOpm2eAWvwFAvz6o1pJMu8y6_LaxZYxAFg… xftp://YLfpIjjRjJdOHKSPHCxhHMUmB_auPkxSIkfo76cH7F…
    
    smp://nfm-LwDDqi9KDPzebYMbriFXdbE3cHvcfHeEhS-1230… xftp://v6P3u9_CPYcgoA79e6tHinywTuzxb6RR6hrSaHrlhz…
    
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- leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How was that an ad? What exactly did you think was being advertised?
  
  And some of us quite like tutorials as they tend explain not just what to do but why it’s being done.
  
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  - LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    SimplifiedPrivacy looks like a for-profit that offers “Degoogled GrapheneOS Phones”, “Rare Session Usernames”, and “Cryptocurrency Consulting Services” over encrypted messaging.
    
    I say “looks like” because there’s no legal info anywhere, and they are pretty adamant about not wanting to get sued.
    
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- Saki@monero.town ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s a good point. One of the two biggest weak points of a so-called e2e provider/platform is, the e2e provider itself.
  
  The only true e2e is e.g. Alice does gpg -ea on an offline computer, copy-pastes ascii and sends it to Bob via an online computer, who copy-pastes this ascii to his offline computer and does gpg -d there. Their seckeys are airgapped from the communication channel. Sharing your sec with a provider is especially ridiculous (e.g. Proton). At least that’s what I think.
  
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