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-![the Red Matrix](images/rm-480x115.png)
 
-The RedMatrix (aka "red") is an open source webapp platform providing a complete **decentralised** publishing, sharing, and communications system. It combines communications (private messaging, chat and social networking), and media management (photos, events, files, web pages, app distribution) with enough features to make your head spin.
+Make Hubz with Hubmaker
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-What makes the RedMatrix unique is what we call "magic authentication" - which is based on our groundbreaking work in decentralised identity services. This ties all RedMatrix sites and channels together into a single super-network where the boundaries between different websites are blurred or seemingly non-existent; where "who you are" has nothing to do with "what computer you're connected to", and where website content can adapt itself according to who is viewing it.  
+![Hubmaker](images/ghash-32.png)
 
-Warning: After experiencing magic authentication and nomadic identity, you may find it disconcerting and a bit "primitive" to go back to the old internet. You shouldn't need hundreds of different passwords to use the web ... or be totally isolated from your friends and family because a server or router in another country is having "*issues*".
+**What are Hubz?**
 
-For the average person, the biggest advantage of decentralised identity is that you decide who you want to share your stuff with, and if somebody isn't on your list, they're not going to see it. It's all under your control (we're big on privacy). Use the RedMatrix as a social network or a business website or for personal cloud storage or media publishing - or any number of other uses; limited only by your imagination.
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-The Red Matrix is free and open source distributed under the MIT license.
+Hubz are independant webservers which can seamlessly connect together to share stuff. 
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+Each hub can be operated standalone (like a blog) or as a webserver community (like a forum or social network). Hubz can be large or small. They can also operate isolated or as connected hubz. When connected they form a super-network of hubz where any member can easily share and interact with any other member or members of any connected hubz. 
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+When connected with other hubz, access permissions of anything published on an individual hub extends to the rest of the network, so that a member of *my* hub can easily and privately share something with a member of *your* hub. They do not require an account or password on my hub to do this. It just works. 
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+**Hubmaker** is the software which creates and manages hubz. It is open source and built on PHP/MySQL/Apache (Mariadb or Postgres and Nginx could also be used, we're pretty easy).  
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+Each hub is
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+* decentralised
+* social
+* privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible hub)
+* optionally inter-networked with other hubs
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+Possible applications include
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+* decentralised social networking
+* personal cloud storage
+* used like a traditional content management system or community website
+* managing organisational communications and activities
+* small business and outreach websites
+* public and private media/file management and access
+* blogs
+* feed aggregation and republishing
+* forums
+* 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.
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+Hubz can also interact to varying degrees with several independant social networks such as Diaspora, Redmatrix, and Friendica; and can cross-post published items to a large number of other services via plugins.  
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