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-**Hubmaker**
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+Make Hubz with Hubmaker
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![Hubmaker](images/ghash-32.png)
-Hubmaker is a webserver application which allows you to quickly create and deploy interactive and social-enabled community websites (hubs) which functionally connect and link together to create an independant super network. By default these hubs and their sub-accounts are
+**What are Hubz?**
+
+Hubz are independant webservers which seamlessly connect together to share stuff. 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 work the same either way.
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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).
+
+Each hub is
* decentralised
* social
* privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible hub)
-* inter-networked with other hubs
+* optionally inter-networked with other hubs
Possible applications include
* decentralised social networking
* personal cloud storage
-* business websites
+* managing organisational communications and activities
+* small business websites
* public and private media/file management and access
* blogs
-* managing organisational communications and activities
* feed aggregation and republishing
-* forums \ No newline at end of file
+* 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. \ No newline at end of file