Alternatives to Hubzilla
An open-source, self-hosted fediverse platform for social networking, publishing and collaboration with nomadic identity. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Hubzilla
An open-source, self-hosted fediverse platform for social networking, publishing and collaboration with nomadic identity.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Hubzilla.
Streams
A self-hosted decentralised social server with nomadic identity and fine-grained permissions over who sees what.
Streams is a self-hosted server that also offers nomadic identity and fine-grained permissions, with regular releases but documentation mainly inside the repository.
Friendica
Federated social platform that bridges to Mastodon, diaspora*, email and RSS.
Friendica is an AGPL-3.0 federated platform with groups, events and photo albums that bridges to Mastodon, diaspora*, email and RSS, without Hubzilla's nomadic identity.
Bonfire
An open-source, federated platform for building a community space that connects to the open social web.
Bonfire is an open-source federated community space with modular building blocks and self-hosted or cooperative hosting options, and a smaller ecosystem than Mastodon.
diaspora*
Decentralised social network built on independently run pods.
diaspora* uses Aspects for controlling who sees each post, but it does not speak ActivityPub and lacks Hubzilla's files, wikis and calendar.
Smithereen
A self-hosted federated social network server with friends, walls and groups, using ActivityPub.
Smithereen offers friends, walls and groups over ActivityPub with Docker setup and a public domain licence, but without Hubzilla's files, wikis and calendars.
Mastodon
Federated microblogging server with no algorithmic feed.
Mastodon focuses on federated microblogging with chronological timelines, dropping Hubzilla's built-in files, calendar, wikis and nomadic identity.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
NodeBB
Open-source community forum software built on Node.js, self-hosted or on paid hosting.
Mobilizon
A federated, open-source platform for creating, sharing and finding events and organising groups.
Movim
A self-hostable web client for XMPP that combines chat, group rooms, news feeds and video calls.
Gancio
A self-hosted shared event agenda for local communities, designed for small instances tied to a place.
WriteFreely
A minimalist, self-hosted blogging platform that federates posts to the fediverse via ActivityPub.
