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42 lines
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Hubzilla
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###Websites. Redefined.
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**What are Hubs?**
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Hubs are independent general-purpose websites that not only connect with their associated members and viewers, but also connect together to exchange personal communications and other information with each other.
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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.
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**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.
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Hubzilla hubs are
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* decentralised
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* inherently social
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* optionally inter-networked with other hubs
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* privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible hubs)
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Possible website applications include
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* decentralised social networking nodes
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* personal cloud storage
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* file dropboxes
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* managing organisational communications and activities
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* collaboration and community decision-making
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* small business websites
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* public and private media/file libraries
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* blogs
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* event promotion
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* feed aggregation and republishing
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* forums
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* dating websites
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* pretty much anything you can do on a traditional blog or community website, but that you could do better if you could easily connect it with other websites or privately share things across website boundaries.
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This project is under development and is not yet available for general use. |