Hubzilla
Decentralized identity, privacy, publishing, sharing, cloud storage, and communications/social platform.
Developed outside the platforms our data source measures, so there is no activity history to score. This says nothing about the project — many unrated projects are actively maintained.
Activity data
Not available for this project. Our source collects commit history from GitHub only, and Hubzilla is developed elsewhere.
| Stars | not measured |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | — |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Hubzilla actively maintained?
We cannot measure this one. Hubzilla is developed outside the platforms our data source collects activity from, and its repository lives at framagit.org — so there is no commit history or release cadence here to score.
Read that as missing data, not as a warning. Several of the best-maintained projects in this catalogue are unrated for exactly this reason. To judge it, open the repository and look at the date of the most recent commit yourself.
What Hubzilla actually does
Hubzilla is a decentralized platform combining identity management, content publishing, file sharing, and social communication into a single system. Built on PHP under the MIT licence, it allows operators to run independent nodes that interoperate across a distributed network.
Best fit: It is suitable for administrators seeking a self-hosted alternative to mainstream social networks and cloud storage providers with an emphasis on data ownership.
Worth knowing: The lack of tagged releases and recent commit activity suggests potential maintenance stagnation, requiring you to carefully assess its stability before production use.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server such as Nginx or Apache, a relational database like MySQL or PostgreSQL, and persistent storage for uploaded files.
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