human.json pitches web-of-trust authorship protocol

This is a very indie-web answer to synthetic-content overload: elegant in spirit, but only useful if a real trust graph forms around it.

• –The core idea is simple: use URL ownership plus signed-off social vouches to build a crawlable human trust network
• –The spec is already concrete enough to implement, with discovery via `link rel="human-json"`, a JSON schema, and example verifier logic
• –Browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome make the protocol more practical by surfacing trust status directly while browsing
• –Community reaction is split between seeing it as a promising human-first alternative to proof-of-personhood and dismissing it as easy to game or too niche to scale
• –Even if it never becomes mainstream infrastructure, it could still become a useful signal for personal sites, blogs, and small trusted publishing circles