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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 11/09/2026

Ask yourself: is ridding social media of bots and sock puppet accounts worth a third party company processing your passport data? When every border you’ve ever passed through has the same data in plain text for anyone to steal eventually anyway?

bleepingcomputer.com

220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak

Exclusive: An exposed Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database held 220 million passenger and crew records containing names, passport numbers, dates of birth, nationalities, and flight det...

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 18/06/2026

Looks like we have some competition from @wsocial.eu. Nice to see other attempts at a social network with real verified humans.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 10/03/2026

True. Though our aim is to build a social network eventually. Relying on Bsky logins wouldn’t be ideal for that.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 07/03/2026

Reminder that we have a feed of all the human verified accounts on Bluesky.

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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 19/02/2026

I've written up my thoughts on the biggest challenges facing social media and how I think it needs to evolve. What it comes down to is that we need more humans and less bots. 👇

blog.picheta.me

The future of social media is human

We cannot continue participating in social media platforms which do nothing to stop us being tricked by GenAI and the powerful people/governments that control them.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/01/2026

Hey #ATProto fans, there is a lot of excitement about new social networks integrating humanity verification, but did you know that we have already implemented this using ATProto’s labels/verifications? Check us out: onlyhumanhub.com

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/01/2026

It’s nice to see other platforms identifying the same problems we have. Humanity verification is the only way to avoid social media turning into a hellscape. If they can get traction then all power to them. Of course, we’d love to help if we can.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/01/2026

Exciting to see other platforms being built with human verification in mind. We have already shipped a privacy-first human verifier and integrated it into Bluesky. Join us! cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

cybernews.com

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.

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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 21/01/2026

This is very close to what I built @onlyhumanhub.com. Except no photo verification needed and it runs on Bluesky and offers a labeler.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/01/2026

We've launched a refreshed front page and some fixes to our verification process. If you ran into problems before, now would be the time to give it another try! 👉 onlyhumanhub.com

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 18/10/2025

How many bots do you think are among the followers of this account? Just on this first page, we'd say it's 13/17 or 76%. Obviously there is no way to prove this. But we do have a way to help you prove that you are definitely a human. 👉 onlyhumanhub.com

Screenshot of the official White House account on Bluesky

Followers of The White House with plausibly real accounts blurred out

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 10/08/2025

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 10/08/2025

That will be meaningless since it won't be using our label.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 06/08/2025

This means that even if our database is stolen *and* our encryption keys are stolen too, the attacker will not be able to read information which identifies you. For more info, including an explanation of exactly what data we collect, see our privacy policy page: onlyhumanhub.com/privacy

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 06/08/2025

No app should ever store raw government IDs without any encryption. Even though we require passports for verification, we don't and never will store any pictures of your passports or any data from your passport in plain text. We even go a step further and hash your data, so it's irreversible.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 06/08/2025

Congrats! Now you can use that passport to verify as a human with us 🙂

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

yes, but without the need to scan your eyes, seems preferable.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

The data that passportreader.app holds isn't held for long (it's deleted after a few hours). The data that we hold is hashed and encrypted, so even if our database was to be hacked or leaked in some way, nobody would be able to retrieve the original data.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

What else would you suggest?

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

Nope, because those are easy to fake.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

The only other way is to do iris scanning (that's what another company is doing). Other than that there is no other way.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

What problem did you run into?

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

It’s been more than 6 months now and that hasn’t happened. Good reason for people to get a passport. Though other IDs should work too.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

We didn’t just come out though. We’ve been around for a while.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

Some governments perhaps. But not all. Though if there is an opportunity to integrate these systems for some governments, we’d love to do it.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

Actually, it is very different. Our app never sees your passport photo. The only data from your passport it stores is hashed and encrypted. So even if our database were to be stolen *and* our encryption key were to be stolen (very big ifs), it would not be possible to get that information back.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 05/08/2025

You don’t have to look far these days to see bots on Bluesky, and these ones are obvious. What about the ones which aren’t? The best way through this is to verify your humanity and join our community of humans. 👉 onlyhumanhub.com

Multiple posts on Bluesky by bots (hosted on casjay.social and okashi.social). Each proclaiming love for someone called Sonny.

Multiple bot accounts posting very similar advertisements for Darksiders 4.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 26/07/2025

@ericmb.bsky.social welcome to our verified human community!

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 24/07/2025

While you’re doing this, you can verify yourself with us and get a Verified Human label on your profile. onlyhumanhub.com/verify

onlyhumanhub.com

Verify - Only Human Hub

onlyhumanhub.com: a community for only real and verified humans

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/07/2025

Hmm, how did you open the Iris ID app? It sounds like it wants you to scan the QR code that our site shows when you click the "Verify" button... but scanning that QR code using your phone camera should give you a link which auto opens the Iris ID app. Is that what you did?

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/07/2025

You should align it so that the full page is visible, in the same way as my specimen image above.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/07/2025

You should see this screen and if you click the blue Start link your camera should open. Then you just point the camera at that page of your passport. It should pick it up on its own if you align it right.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/07/2025

It's supposed to scan this page (see below)

The page that will be scanned by a passport reader

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/07/2025

What kind of ID are you scanning? Not all IDs are supported, but all passports should be. Here is the breakdown of what is supported on Iris ID.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 22/07/2025

Sure, if you like. You can also move the verification status to your other account. It's pretty easy on onlyhumanhub.com/profile

Screenshot of the account link change screen on onlyhumanhub

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025

In the future we may allow assigning "Verified Human" status to alt accounts too. But we will always show a list of all accounts linked to a particular human. The idea is to avoid things like vote brigading (more of a Reddit thing, but similar is possible here)

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025

Good question: accounts can only be verified with a passport, if someone wants to burn their passport and use it as a vehicle for posting as a bot then that's a risk they will take. But if we figure it out we'll ban them and they won't have the ability to verify again.

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025

Well, since you cannot give Verified Human status to more than one account, the account you have verified is your "main" account :) The point is: there are no sock puppet accounts that don't link to your "human" status (which is unique to each individual's passport)

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025

Thank you 😀 And with your help we can get to 14 people! 👉 onlyhumanhub.com/verify

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025

For the best experience, be sure to also subscribe to our Human Labeling Service @label.onlyhumanhub.com. As always, if you want to get verified, visit onlyhumanhub.com/verify

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 21/07/2025

We have just created the Only Human feed™! This is a feed of Verified Humans: accounts which we have verified as belonging to real people. Truly the only feed that is free of bots and alt accounts. bsky.app/profile/only...

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John O Connell {my alt is corkiejp.bsky.social} @corkiejp.github.io · 19/07/2025

I got my new passport delivered to me Yesterday. First thing I did with it online was to do the below. See @onlyhumanhub.com by @dom96.picheta.me Needed the passport for EU Age Restrictions Guidelines coming into force from ‬21st July. onlyhumanhub.com/profile/cork...

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 28/04/2025

The only way you can stop this from happening is to verify humanity. Our goal is to make this possible, get verified and join us now!

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Only Human Hub @onlyhumanhub.com · 27/04/2025

@mackuba.eu has created a wonderful tool that lets you see who has verified who, so if you ever want a list of the accounts we've verified you can access that here: blue.mackuba.eu/directory/ve...

Table showing users verified by @onlyhumanhub.com

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