Here is a list of publications, academic research and media coverage featuring Hubzilla, its technology, and its approach to decentralization, privacy and digital sovereignty.
October 12, 2026 · Max Benz · Let's Be Crazy
Hubzilla is recommended as an alternative to Tumblr for anyone who wants to bring blogging, forums and cloud features together in one place while keeping their digital identity portable.
March 1, 2024 · State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesanstalt für Medien NRW)
The broadcasting authority of North Rhine-Westphalia names Hubzilla as one of the services known for ensuring a high level of data protection and using open standards that make services interoperable.
October 5, 2021 · ZDF (German public broadcaster)
Following the major Facebook outage in October 2021, ZDF recommended decentralized alternatives, including Hubzilla: “Instead of Facebook, Friendica, Hubzilla or Diaspora can be used.”
April 17, 2021 · Digitalcourage
The Digitalcourage association introduces the Fediverse and recommends Hubzilla as a versatile “social media cockpit”.
2020 · NLnet Foundation
NLnet awarded Hubzilla an NGI Discovery grant to support its further development over two years, highlighting its contribution to providing a decentralized identity and authentication layer for the Internet.
April 11, 2018 · Ulrich Hasecke
This technology blog compares Hubzilla and Mastodon. It describes Hubzilla's extensive feature set as a strength while noting that the abundance of functions may also be overwhelming for new users.
Publication year not specified here · Digital Culture Laboratory, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Hubzilla is discussed as a case study and recommendation in the chapter “Tendências democráticas e autoritárias, arquiteturas distribuídas e centralizadas” (“Democratic and Authoritarian Tendencies, Distributed and Centralized Architectures”).
2016 · BMC Health Services Research
This peer-reviewed study protocol describes the implementation of strategies to connect healthcare professionals and integrate primary care units with a regional hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. The related project used Hubzilla to support continuous care across a network of healthcare providers serving a neighborhood of approximately 60,000 people.
2015 · IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
This peer-reviewed conference publication describes the use of technology to integrate hospital and primary healthcare in São Paulo, Brazil, documenting a large-scale application of Hubzilla beyond personal and community social networking.
2015 · Alexandre Hannud Abdo · Latin American Network for Studies of Surveillance, Technology and Society (LAVITS)
This peer-reviewed academic contribution, published in Portuguese, highlights the importance of features unique to Redmatrix/Hubzilla in efforts to restore privacy and decentralization to the Internet.
2015 · Mohammad Badiul Islam, Renato Iannella, Jason Watson and Shlomo Geva · International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity
A peer-reviewed survey examining the extensibility of privacy options across social media platforms classified Hubzilla's implementation of privacy as “Extensive”. The paper compared privacy features across different social networking solutions.
Publication date not specified · PRISM Break
PRISM Break lists Hubzilla among software projects that can help users avoid mass surveillance.