Pith Number

pith:KM6QHKV4

pith:2023:KM6QHKV43BU6M62AEMXYTPECG3

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Uses and Gratifications of Alternative Social Media: Why do people use Mastodon?

Kijung Lee, Mian Wang

arxiv:2303.01285 v1 · 2023-03-02 · cs.HC · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KM6QHKV43BU6M62AEMXYTPECG3}

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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.

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Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:47:29.161246Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

533d03aabcd869e67b40232f89bc8236f36d210c47eb962007c743df2661d76e

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.01285 · arxiv_version: 2303.01285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.01285 · pith_short_12: KM6QHKV43BU6 · pith_short_16: KM6QHKV43BU6M62A · pith_short_8: KM6QHKV4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KM6QHKV43BU6M62AEMXYTPECG3 \
  | 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: 533d03aabcd869e67b40232f89bc8236f36d210c47eb962007c743df2661d76e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "941d2602b8f11080952a5861d0783c7057754002979acf0ca301746e399f130d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-02T14:09:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dadc8a7d9c5f608e2857eca6370b9e7d2ea958011d090bea43196abd62639b20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.01285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}