Hubzilla
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralised identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- Privacy focused
- Free Speech
Features
- Decentralized
- Federated
Support for ActivityPub- Publishing
- Wide API Support
- Included wiki
- Calendar Integration
- Ad-free
- OpenID Provider
- Wiki
- Anticensorship
- Categories
- Distributed
Tags
- Events
- Privacy Protection
- Encrypted
- lgbt
- identification
- media-publishing-platform
Hubzilla News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
Myrano added Hubzilla as alternative to Skeets for Bluesky
hexquant added Hubzilla as alternative to X Auto Reply Assistant- loziniak added Support for Themes as a feature to Hubzilla
- loziniak liked Hubzilla
- ekroberts73 liked Hubzilla
Hubzilla information
Developed by
Zotlabs Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
72 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Social & Communications, Security & Privacy, Business & Commerce, Education & Reference, Office & Productivity, Online Services, Photos & Graphics
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What is Hubzilla?
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).
Features • social networking discussion threads • cloud file storage • calendar and contacts (with CalDAV and CardDAV support) • webpage hosting with a content management system • wiki • and more...
An instance of Hubzilla is called a Hub. Hubs are independent general-purpose websites that not only connect with their associated members and viewers (e.g. a community), but also connect together to exchange personal communications and other information with each other. This allows hub members on any hub to securely and privately share anything; with anybody, on any hub - anywhere; or share stuff publicly with anybody on the internet if desired.
Hubzilla is the server software which makes this possible. It is a sophisticated and unique combination of an open source content management system and a decentralised identity, communications, and permissions framework and protocol suite, built using common webserver technology (PHP/MySQL/Apache, although Mariadb or Postgres and Nginx could also be used - we're pretty easy). The end result is a level of systems integration, privacy control, and communications features that you wouldn't think are possible in either a content management system or a decentralised communications network. It also brings a new level of cooperation and privacy to the web and introduces the concept of personally owned "single sign-on" to web services across the entire internet.
Hubzilla hubs are • decentralised • inherently social • optionally inter-networked with other hubs • privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible hubs)
Comments and Reviews
With a Nomadic Identity you are never locked permanently to one server , yet you can communicate across to other platforms much in the way that email does. In addition to not being locked.. you never need to give out a new address, you keep in communication when you migrate to another server, plus there are many free servers to use, or you can launch your own instance.