Pith Number

pith:5XTK6T6M

pith:2025:5XTK6T6M3A7ZJNGJJZNAHPAICO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols

Amy X. Zhang, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez, Sohyeon Hwang, Tolulope Oshinowo

arxiv:2505.22962 v1 · 2025-05-29 · cs.SI · cs.CY · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XTK6T6M3A7ZJNGJJZNAHPAICO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:12:11.785642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ede6af4fccd83f94b4c94e5a03bc0813b346b87a099c47bb6f3c72b39df2a002

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.22962 · arxiv_version: 2505.22962v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.22962 · pith_short_12: 5XTK6T6M3A7Z · pith_short_16: 5XTK6T6M3A7ZJNGJ · pith_short_8: 5XTK6T6M

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5XTK6T6M3A7ZJNGJJZNAHPAICO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ede6af4fccd83f94b4c94e5a03bc0813b346b87a099c47bb6f3c72b39df2a002

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f02a45c0d8929a8eec431799a63b4aab390cbe480a1709c7e5482b232f3709a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-29T01:04:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "913fed4bbfd3c51b4f25335b17870b1e35fb1914e94f9cf7a7b803d275eb30e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.22962",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}