Post: Spotlight: human.json

damian.buho@proton.me (Damián Búho) — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:59:00 GMT

I have 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, 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.

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Post: Spotlight: human.json