Information

Everything you need to know about the HILDUS foundation and the community-software platform it develops — the mission, the meaning of the name, how a community server works, what it costs, and how to take part.

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Our Mission

HILDUS is a foundation that develops and distributes software for intellectual communities: the people who build an audience keep it, along with the content an…

The Platform & Live Sites

How it fits together: the foundation sets the ideas, Shopnseo and Qwetru apply them to commerce and to writing, regional representatives sell access to the con…

Get Involved

Four ways to take part in what the foundation builds: run your own page or site on a panel subscription, run the whole platform as an organisation, build clien…

How a Community Server Works

What putting the whole platform on a machine of your own actually means: the tier for organisations — what the host controls, how it is priced, and what the fo…

Start a Community

The honest version of the steps: choose what the place is about, find the first people, decide where it lives, write the rules, and only then think about money.

Questions and Answers

Straight answers about cost, AI and tokens, ownership, revenue, lock-in and support — including the parts that are not finished yet.

What Running a Server Costs

An honest breakdown of what an installation of your own requires — the money, the time, and the parts that cost nothing. Written for organisations weighing whe…

Privacy Policy

What the HILDUS foundation collects through this site, how it is used, and how independent community servers differ.

Terms of Service

Terms for using the hildus.com site and how the HILDUS foundation relates to independently owned community servers.

The Info section brings together everything you need to understand the HILDUS foundation and the community-software platform it develops. Whether you want to know what we stand for, weigh what running your own community server involves, or read the fine print, it is all collected here.

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