streams/README.md

Make Hubz with Hubzilla

What are Hubz?

Hubz are general-purpose websites. Every member can create or customise their own personal websites, media collections and/or social spaces, and these can all share and interact.

Hubz all over the internet connect together "magically" to create very large communities and social networks; and these can all share and interact.

Hubz members can securely and privately share anything; with anybody, on any Hubz. Or share stuff publicly with the entire internet if desired.

Hubzilla is open source and built using common webserver technology (PHP/MySQL/Apache, although Mariadb or Postgres and Nginx could also be used, we're pretty easy).

Hubz are

• decentralised
• inherently social
• optionally inter-networked with other Hubz
• privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible Hubz)

Possible website applications include

• decentralised social networking nodes
• personal cloud storage
• file dropboxes
• managing organisational communications and activities
• collaboration and community decision-making
• small business websites
• public and private media/file libraries
• blogs
• event promotion
• feed aggregation and republishing
• forums
• dating websites
• 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.