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Hubzilla - introduction, possibilities, Hubzilla community

«Hubzilla – introduction, possibilities, Hubzilla community» Hubzilla is a free and open source platform running on a special kind of web server, called a "hub", that can connect to other hubs in a decentralised network called "the grid", providing sophisticated communications, identity, and access control services which work together seamlessly across domains and independent websites. It allows anybody to publicly or privately publish content via "channels".

What is Hubzilla?

Hubzilla (further called Hbz) - is a decentralized network, whose inventors and creators have set the goal to realize a medium, whose structure and used protocol Zot allow a smooth time-saving communication without censorship and without surveillance. Hubzilla offers many useful features. The relevance of each feature depends on the application scenario.

For all user important properties - omnipresence, availability and privacy

Two unique selling points of Hubzilla (Hbz) are clear, important and attractive for all user — omnipresence, availability and privacy.

Omnipresence at Hbz context is:

  • from one side omnipresence literally and globally meant ability and possibilitie for Hbz user to get access and use Hbz services everywhere, where user can login in their Hbz account and contact their virtual Nomadic Identity. Malfunction for anyone of hubs do not violate the working capacity of each Hbz user or working capacity of whole Hbz grid.
  • omnipresence meant one opportunity with small expenses of time communicate with large number of contacts.. This omnipresence is provided thanks the powerful mention feature that allowed with enter of @ and one or more characters view all contacts, that names contains the entired characters. That mentioned contact can also one mailinglist or forum are. Everyone subscriber of mailinglist and each forum member can get from you one message without you before this contacted these recipients.

Unusually high availability values of Hbz services in sense ITIL is another unique Hbz property and it is reached thanks omnipresence of Hbz user. High Hbz availability and omnipresence of Hbz user are different sides of the same coin. In Hbz grid increases availability, stability of the grid what anymore attendees has the grid.

Nomadic Identity and other comfort

Nomadic Identity is a one of core Hubzilla concepts, which allowed to implement on grid the omnipresence phenomenon. Unique omnipresence property is possibly thanks the skill of Hbz user clon of own Nomadic Identity on two or more hubs, what results in availability values for Nomadic Identity accessibility up to 100%. If an user change data on theirs hub, this changes will be updated on other clon hubs. Continuously in realtime exchange the clons the data, thanks to what each of clons permanently know all, what know their protagonist.

Default accessible Hubzlla features

The following features are available to node owners after installing Hbz by default:

  • address book (contacts)
  • Website, web resource
  • Social networks
  • Forums
  • Events Calendar
  • Wiki
  • Chat
  • Cloud for your files
  • A set of applications (apps) that can be expanded according to the needs of the host owner.

Messages are exchanged on the network according to the https protocol. In addition, it is possible to encrypt part or all of the message with a password.

Versatile nomadic identity

Sociality — the ability to exchange messages with other networks, such as Diaspora or Friendica.

Omnivorousness – ability to digest, integrate multiple formats – HTML, plain text, bbcode, markdown, application/x-php, so that users can combine content from different sources in their messages with a small amount of time.

Versatility, unpretentiousness – depending on the load on a particular node Hbz, which depends on the number of registered users, the activity, including the number of contacts of these users and the number of visitors to the node can be set this node on the appropriate hardware - Hbz runs on a mini-computer Raspberry Pi as reliable as on a server with the most powerful AMD- or Intel-Xeon multiprocessors.

Virtual room – workplace of Nomadic Identity

Zot is a special protocol , which provides information exchange, twin management and access control in a decentralized network of independent nodes (hubs). This network in the Hbz context is often called a grid. Hbz nodes perform various functions, the most important of which for the owner of the node:

  • providing a virtual office to the nomadic double of the node owner, which has in its possession:
    • the node owner's contacts
    • a place to meet other nomadic double
    • a kind of relay station with one or many channels or a publishing house with one or many publications
  • a system for precision control of access to each of the objects in the node
  • the twin, according to the credentials entrusted to him, performs a variety of activities related to the communication with other doppelgangers from the Hbz network or with the guests of the network
  • room belonging to the owner of the node, a space where he can let as guests the alien twins:
    • each of the alien twins has at its disposal virtually the same capabilities as the node owner's doppelganger, especially if the guest and the owner trust each other or they have concluded a corresponding virtual office hiring agreement.

Thus the Hbz network is a space, a habitat for doppelgangers, the scope of whose authority is predetermined by the original.

Use cases

The pictures show figuratively or schematically the possible scenarios for using Hbz. The Micro SD shows the fact that the Hubzilla server can be installed on this fingernail-sized card.

sourse list

  1. Hubzilla – https://dev.hubzilla.org/page/expertmode/hubzilla-project-lang-ru
  2. Hubzilla help – http://hub2.sprechrun.de/help/
  3. The history of Hubzilla – http://www.talkplus.org/blog/2016/the-history-of-hubzilla/
  4. Hubzilla Community подборка ссылок – http://hub2.sprechrun.de/page/hucope/hubzilla-community
  5. Heliza: Considerations for Hubzilla mobile agent concept – http://hub2.sprechrun.de/page/flegno/heliza-considerations-for-one-hubzilla-mobile-agent-concept_en
  6. Identity of author (Gustav Wall) on the Hubzilla Network – https://hub.libranet.de/channel/nmoplus
  7. Sustainable digital ecosystems in the post-Google age, (in german) 13.10.2014 – http://sprechrun.de/web21/?id=1708
  8. HappyPony - my life with basic income (in german) 19.09.2015 – http://sprechrun.de/web21/?id=3625
  9. Human Brain Project – https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project
  10. Communities in new digital Neuland, (in german), 06.04.2015 – http://telefonradio-plus.sprechrun.de/index.php?id=2946
  11. Ethereum – https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
  12. A drive for your projects: (in german) – http://projektmotor.sprechrun.de/
  13. The Bancor protocol is the standard for a new generation of cryptocurrencies called Smart Tokens - https://bancor.network/
  14. SMART CONTRACTS bringen Ihre Verträge zum Leben – https://www.sbc-systems.eu/smart-contracts/
  15. Web of Trust Von https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ogmios – https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons – https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Web_of_Trust.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30127548
  16. Zwei gleiche Schlüssel Von Sebastian Hartlaub – Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=696513
  17. Dictatorship 4.0: The Nice New Virtual World. How virtualization threatens our freedom - and what the alternatives are (in German).. 07.06.2017, https://www.pcwelt.de/a/diktatur-4-0-schoene-neue-digitalisierte-welt,3447005
  18. Hubzilla - introduction, possibilities, Hubzilla community (Gustav Wall, LVEE-2017) Video in Russian, 24.06.2017, http://0x1.tv/20170424C
  19. Не ходи в Fediverse, там тебя ждут неприятности. Ну как же туда не ходить? Они же ждут. 24.06.2017 - https://habrahabr.ru/post/345402/