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-Make Hubz with Hubmaker
+Make Hubz with Hubzilla
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-![Hubmaker](images/ghash-32.png)
+![Hubzilla](images/ghash-32.png)
**What are Hubz?**
-Hubz are independant webservers which can seamlessly connect together to share stuff.
+Hubz are general-purpose websites built using our revolutionary platform. Every website member can create their own unique website or social space to suit their needs and personality, and these can all interact.
-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.
+But we don't stop there. Hubz all over the internet "magically" connect together into very large (or "internet-scale") social networks, websites, and communities; and *these* can all interact.
-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.
+It just works.
-**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).
+When connected with other Hubz, permission to access the things you publish can extend to anybody in the Hubzilla network. So *my* Hubz can easily and securely share private stuff with *your* Hubz. Photos, spreadhseets, web pages, anything - anybody. This does not require another account or a password to access the private stuff.
-Each hub is
+It just works.
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+**Hubzilla** 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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+Hubz are
* decentralised
* social
-* privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible hub)
+* privacy-enabled (privacy exclusions work across the entire internet to any registered identity on any compatible Hubz)
* optionally inter-networked with other hubs
-Possible applications include
+Possible website applications include
* 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
+* small business websites
* public and private media/file management and access
* blogs
+* event promotion
* 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.
-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
+Hubzilla members 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 social and communication providers via plugins. \ No newline at end of file