---
title: "Spotlight: human.json"
description: ""
lang: en
date: 2026-05-25T02:59:00.000Z
tags:
  - Standards
  - Small Web
---

May 25, 2026

I have [human.json](/human.json) on this site.

> human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and
vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust
propagates through a
crawlable web of vouches between sites.
> <https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json>

I like the idea of establishing trust between people in this slop era.

I always felt like such conventions and standards are something that only a
bunch of important
grayscrotums in very important commitees can do, and human.json actually
inspired me to design
[projectfile](https://projectfile.org), first and foremost for myself, but also to put it out there.

Although, I believe that any kind of commentless JSON should be only used by
Catholic nuns as
punishment tool, I also believe we need more initiatives like this one. Not only
because it's a
legitimate attempt to solve a problem, but also because we lately gave up a lot
of ground to
committees of aforementioned grayscrotums (corporate or pseudocorporate), and
the world kinda sucks
because of it.

You can fuck the right off with your new vibe-coded habit tracker, but if you
have an idea for a
protocol or a scheme that empowers other people to build, I salute you.
Even if it's weird or obscure, any such idea is an open invitation to work
together, and that's
cool.

P.S. Technically it was just a "Vouch" collection in my Payload CMS backend, and
a little renderer
for my Astro frontend, so I am not sure that I'll open a human.json consulting
agency anytime soon.

## Tags

[Standards](/tag/standards/), [Small Web](/tag/small-web/)

## Navigation

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## Links

- [human.json specification](https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json)