Pith Number

pith:4IXRVG35

pith:2025:4IXRVG35ZI63HZ6DN27Y6BMSKE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Data Ethics in the Fediverse: Analyzing the Role of Instance Policies in Mastodon Research

Helena Mihaljevi\'c, Mareike Lisker

arxiv:2505.07606 v1 · 2025-05-12 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4IXRVG35ZI63HZ6DN27Y6BMSKE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:01:50.533603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e22f1a9b7dca3db3e7c36ebf8f05925121a591e3667940bec642fcdda59f6ec1

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.07606 · arxiv_version: 2505.07606v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.07606 · pith_short_12: 4IXRVG35ZI63 · pith_short_16: 4IXRVG35ZI63HZ6D · pith_short_8: 4IXRVG35

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/4IXRVG35ZI63HZ6DN27Y6BMSKE \
  | 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: e22f1a9b7dca3db3e7c36ebf8f05925121a591e3667940bec642fcdda59f6ec1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "15c6fa361e05760f91a3d9792e4433c55d8b554e883559456c54ea7546062661",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-12T14:28:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9db0dded7fbaade8f105fd6b8791b0d16c68369ef4c4878c3a4cc94b6e8638e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.07606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}