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Share content only with those you have given permission to access it.

Use or self-host the powerful all-in-one home base for collaborational and social interactions. Beyond being part of the open, interoperable and decentral fediverse, Hubzilla provides full privacy control.

Customisable
Federated
Libre & community-based
Connect online with colleagues, friends or family to discover, follow, share, discuss and develop data, information, ideas and life.
Why use Hubzilla

All: The full range of cooperation and social formats

Hubzilla is not limited to a specific type of cooperative and social interaction. You can follow whoever and share exclusively with them whatever you want: local blog articles, news feeds, wikis, webpages, polls, workflow items, videos, images, audio and other files (cloud, webDAV), calendars, address books, federated microblogging posts without length restrictions and more.

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In: Connecting to virtually anybody in- and even outside the fediverse

Connect to users from other Hubzilla and Streams servers (through Zot/Nomad), ActivityPub based servers (Friendica, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Peertube, Pixelfed, Funkwhale, to name the most common) and Diaspora servers. Cross-post to X. Provide people with no social service account access to your privacy-protected content through "guest tokens". Import RSS feeds from external websites. An RSS feed containing your own posts is provided out of the box.

Connecting with Hubzilla

One: Visionary integration of security, privacy, access control, and ownership

Reveal publications and informations about yourself appropriate to each situation and keep them forever as private as you want – using multiple nomadic identities, organising your connections and access controlling. Keep offensive content away. Privacy respecting technologies are used by default.
Install and update your own hub easily on webhosting, a dedicated / virtual / home webserver or a Raspberry Pi home server with the method of your choice (manual web install, full-service automatic install script, docker container or pre-configured full server images like Yunohost).

Visionary Integration

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What you can do with Hubzilla

Need a federated cooperative social network account? Register on a Hubzilla hub.

Want to set up a server for your community? Check out the installation procedure.

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Go online with your own website, blog, vlog/video channel or audio podcast and keep full control over it

You keep the ownership of your identity and your data throughout their travel through the fediverse

Become independent from your host and invulnerable

Even if you trust your web admin – Downtime or losses of data, server discontinuation or being banned won't bother you: Make your identities nomadic by cloning or moving them between servers. Take your connections and data along.

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Have many faces for specific purposes

Cultivate multiple identies and target groups (e.g. family & friends, colleages, hobby, blogging, video tutorials, community services) in one account

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Set fine-control access to each published item

Allow selected connections, guests and / or connection lists access by using a universal Access Control List tool.

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Keep away offensive content

Filter out illegal, offensive or otherwise undesired content and block identities who spread such – as adminsitrator for your whole site or as a user.

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Use privacy respecting technologies

All content is routed privatly, using cross-site (remote) authentication, encrypted by default, plus optional peer-to-peer encryption for sensitive content.

Apps
The features of Hubzilla are easily extendible via a powerful, easy to handle addon system. Whether you want to coordinate tasks in your community, organise a mutual aid community, curate learning resources or run a online store, there can be the right app for you!
Do you need a specific app for your community?
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News / Roadmap
Hubzilla is continuously brought further since 2012 to extend the possibilities of web publishing and of the fediverse. Visit or follow the main developer of Hubzilla to get informed in detail about the new releases.
  • Bridges between fediverse protocols
    The first Fediverse services federated only in-service via their specific protocol. To connect these isolated galaxies, Mike McGirvin created Hubzilla's predecessor which was called Friendica (intially Mistpark), with its own protocol, but with support for most other protocols, allowing social postings to be sent to and received from other networks (even some commercial services that offer an open interface).
  • Blogging features, WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV
    After Friendica, Mike McGirvin wanted to create something more visionary than a social network, so he developed a network that could handle basically any type of social web content, regulated by a full-fledged access control system, and with sophisticated mechanisms of security, privacy, and ownership. This network was named Redmatrix first and later renamed to Hubzilla, and came with the highly capable protocol Zot.
  • OpenID, remote authentication, nomadic identity
    Hubzilla got enhanced as an OpenID provider, allowing users to log into OpenID-enabled sites with their Hubzilla channels. The Zot protocol has built in nomadic identity and a mechanism which makes it possible to a server to grant or refuse access to content and actions to identities which are registered on a different hub.
  • Better permissions handling
    Improved workflow for setting permissions and streamline the way permissions are set across all relevant modules.
  • Improved guest access
    Improved workflow for dealing with guest access tokens and provide quick access where applicable.
  • Improved page layout editor. Dashboard added.
    A user interface for the page layout editor was created. The UI allows to drag and drop the building blocks with the mouse. A dashboard which provides a welcome page after login has been added. Various widgets provide an overview of recent activities.
  • Added more functionalites to the dashboard.
    The dashboard now gives an overview over received posts, divided into public, private and starred ones and those in which the user is mentioned. When it comes to cloud files, wiki pages, photos and webpages, the user sees previews of the most recent created three objects, allowing fast access to them.
Join us
We want to partner with progressive communities, cooperatives, municipalities and grassroots movements to design and build network tools together, and make them available for everyone to use and optimize.
Do you want to discuss yours needs and see if a Hubzilla core app or addon might help? Do you want to contribute to building the Hubzilla ecosystem? Want to get involved as a translator, developer or beta tester?