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Hubzilla - Tips & Tricks: Apps
Overview
It's possible to extend Hubzilla's functionality with app. Some apps are available by default, others need to be installed by the instance's admin.Here's a selection of the default apps:
- Articles
Blog functionality for your channel - Calendar
And event Calendar with CalDav support - CardDav
Address book management - Chatrooms
Self-explanatory - Files
Your cloud file storage with access control. Also accessible through WebDAV. - Guest Access
Create guest tokens for people who are not on Hubzilla to share content with them, including files and photos - Photos
Again, self-explanatory - Privacy groups
Lets you organize your connections in groups for easier access control. - Webpages
A tool to create static pages for your channel - Wiki
Lets you create wikis such as this one.
And a selection of additional apps (descriptions mostly from the admin interface):
- Adult Photo Flag
Provides an optional feature to hide individual photos from the default album view - b2tbtn
Show link to go back to the top of the page. - Bookmarker
Replace #^ with a bookmark icon - cart
Core cart utilities for orders and payments - Channel reputation
Reputation system for community channels (forums, etc.) - Chess
Hubzilla plugin for decentralized, identity-aware chess games powered by chessboard.js - Chord generator
Guitar Chord Generator Application - Diaspora Protocol
Connect to the Diaspora decentralized social network - Emojione
Emoji emoticons - Flattr Widget
Add a Flattr Button to the left/right aside are to allow the flattring of one thing (e.g. the for a blog) - Fuzzy location
If you have browser location enabled for your posts, provide a bit of fuzziness to your actual location. - Gallery
Album gallery and photo viewer based on photoswipe - GNU social Connector
Relay public postings to a connected GNU social account (formerly StatusNet) - GNU-Social Protocol
Connect to GNU-Social accounts (formerly StatusNet) - Hilite
Syntax highlight code blocks - IRC Chat Plugin
add an Internet Relay Chat chatroom - NSFW
Collapse posts with inappropriate content - OpenStreetMap
Use OpenStreetMap for displaying locations. After activation the post location just beneath your avatar in your posts will link to OpenStreetMap. Let's you embed maps in your posts. - PubCrawl
An unapologetically non-compliant ActivityPub Protocol implemention - PubSubHubBub
Required for GNU-Social protocol. Add PuSH capability to channel feeds - Qrator
QR generator - superblock
block channels - TOTP
two-factor authentication
Checking for available apps
Before you choose your hub where to sign up, you might want to check which apps are installed. You can do so by calling up the base url for the hub and append siteinfo.json. For this hub, the link looks like this:https://hubzilla.lazyteddy.eu/siteinfo.json
The installed apps are listed under "Plugins".
Installing apps
In order to install new apps, click the hamburger menu in the top right corner of the screen and choose "Add apps". From there, click on "Available apps" on the left. This takes you here:/apps/available
Recommended apps
NSFW
This app lets you specify keywords and then collapses posts in the stream if those keywords are found. If your contacts tag their NSFW posts correctly, you shouldn't see any nude pictures in your stream. I also know somebody who was getting too many pictures of spiders in her stream, so she added "spider" to the list of keywords.Superblock
An absolute must-have, as far as I'm concerned. Does what it says - it lets you block users from communicating with you in any way, shape, or form. Also hides their comments on your connections' posts in your stream.Privacy Groups
Organize your connections in groups. Makes it easy to share items (posts, photos, files etc.) with a selected group of people, without having to choose them individually each time.Federation apps
If you want to connect to people elsewhere in the Federation / the Fediverse, you have to install the necessary protocols:- Diaspora (Diaspora / Friendica)
- ActivityPub (e.g. Mastodon / Pleroma / Friendica)
- GNU-Social
Friendica is kind of an odd case, as it supports more than one protocol.