The other day someone asked me, "Why did you start Pushshift? What's the purpose?" It was a good question -- I never started this for money. The world needs people to archive as much data as possible so that someday researchers will have that data and be able to better understand
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the world we once lived in. My hope is that all that social media data gives future historians a better understanding of how social media changed society (for better or for worse) and how our society changed from it.
We're living in a pivotal moment of history.