@Yohan Yuki Xieㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 Friendica and its several descendants, including Hubzilla and (streams), have been fully themeable since their respective inceptions. It just takes someone to create and maintain themes.

Early Friendica didn't go that far with its themes, but I remember that it came with themes that mimicked Diaspora* or Facebook.

When Hubzilla was still fairly new, it came with a bunch of themes to choose from, too. Unfortunately, it was too much of an effort to keep all these themes up-to-date with the backend. Only Redbasic was maintained, and the other themes were marked as outdated and no longer fully compatible with then-current Hubzilla until they were thrown out entirely. In the meantime, Redbasic doesn't look any different today than it looked a dozen years ago when Hubzilla was still named Red.

Hubzilla's UI in particular can be redesigned in such ways that you won't even notice that you're on a federated social network instance anymore, much less that it's Hubzilla underneath. However, there is no documentation on how Hubzilla themes work, other than the source codes of Redbasic and the old themes if you can still find them.

@Scott M. Stolz is working on all-new themes for Hubzilla, and so is @𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 who is making specialised UIs for specific purposes, e.g. for Hubzilla channels that mostly serve as blogs. Both basically have to reverse-engineer Hubzilla's theming with a lot of trial and error. But Scott said he'll write a how-to once he's done with his themes.

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