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The most similar Fediverse project comes from {{Internal link |target=What is (streams)? |link-name=the Streams repository}}, followed by {{Internal link |target=What is Friendica? |link-name=Friendica}}, also because Hubzilla was forked from a Friendica fork. None of them offers quite as many features as Hubzilla, though.

Hubzilla's Web interface is extensively themeable, much like wholly different Web interfaces for {{Internal link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}}, but as of now, there is only one supported theme, Redbasic. It can be extensively configured, though. It also has a dark mode that can be activated manually or automatically.

On Hubzilla, your account is neither your identity nor where your posts and other data are stored. For this, Hubzilla has {{Internal link |target=What are channels on Hubzilla and (streams)? |link-name=channels}}. When you create a Hubzilla account, you're also asked to create a first channel.

The handling of images and other media is a lot different from Mastodon and other micro-blogging projects. They aren't uploaded and attached to posts. Instead, they're first uploaded to the managed file space which is part of each channel. Then they are embedded into posts or, with a trick, comments as links to the uploaded files. {{Internal link |target=How to add alt-text to images on Hubzilla and (streams) |link-name=Alt-text is added by editing the BBcode}} and theoretically unlimited in length, too.

Also, posts and comments can be "shared" by referencing them in a new post or comment. It's basically the same as a "quote-tweet", but without copying the original post into the editor. For those who receive the post or comment, the reference is expanded to the whole shared post or comment, mentioning the author and giving a link to the original.