Hubzilla
An open-source, self-hosted fediverse platform for social networking, publishing and collaboration with nomadic identity.
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About Hubzilla
Hubzilla is a platform for building interconnected websites with a decentralised identity, communications and permissions framework, built on common web server technology. Each channel can include posts, photos, files, a calendar, webpages and wikis, with private posts, private file sharing and private groups.
Nomadic identity lets you move your identity to a new server or keep clones and backups. It also offers federated discussion groups and forums, conversation containers for moderation, and federated single sign-on. It suits communities and self-hosters who want more than microblogging.
Strengths
- Nomadic identity with clones and backups
- Built-in files, photos, calendar, webpages and wikis
- Fine access control for posts, files and groups
- Federated forums and single sign-on
Limitations
- Many features make it more complex than simple microblogging servers
- Requires running your own web server
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree open-source software you host yourself.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The Hubzilla contributors
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Account
- Required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Communities wanting an all-in-one self-hosted social and collaboration hub
- Categories
- Office tools, Social networks
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Hubzilla
Compare allSoftware that can replace Hubzilla for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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.
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 necessarily a direct replacement.
Mobilizon
A federated, open-source platform for creating, sharing and finding events and organising groups.
NodeBB
Open-source community forum software built on Node.js, self-hosted or on paid hosting.
WriteFreely
A minimalist, self-hosted blogging platform that federates posts to the fediverse via ActivityPub.
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.
