The human.json vouch graph
human.json is a small protocol, launched in March 2026, that lets a personal website state that it's written by a human and vouch for other sites it believes are human-made too. A site adds a <link rel="human-json"> tag pointing to a JSON file that lists the URLs it vouches for, each with a date. Verifiers, such as the browser extensions, follow those vouches outward from sites you already trust, building a web of trust one hop at a time. This page maps that web: every file we can find, who vouches for whom, and how the network changes week to week.
The network
Each dot is a site. Blue sites publish a human.json file; gray sites are vouched for but publish none. Dot size follows how many sites vouch for it. The ring around the edge holds sites that share no vouch with the main network: a file whose targets nobody else vouches for, or a file with no vouches at all. Hover for details, click to pin a site and see its vouches. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan.
When people joined
New human.json files per week, dated by each file's earliest vouched_at (a lower bound on adoption; files with no dated vouches are not counted). The spec launched 8 March 2026.
Are files being updated?
Age of each file's newest dated vouch, as of the crawl date.
Is the network navigable?
Trust structure among sites that publish a file.
Most vouches given
Most vouched for
Most vouched for, but no file
The longest chain of trust
The longest shortest path between two sites: the farthest a verifier would have to walk to connect them.
Has trust been withdrawn?
Vouches present in one version of a file and missing from the next, across Wayback Machine captures (then today's crawl) and the git history of files kept on GitHub. The protocol has no revocation, so deleting the vouch is the only way to withdraw it.