Each day, Pushshift is now ingesting, indexing and storing over half a billion social media objects. The eventual goal is to be able to process up to one billion objects daily for researchers to use to better understand how social media platforms influence society.
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The scale you're at is astounding. My system (using a small portion of pushift's dataset) is absolutely chugging at only 8 billion objects 😰
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That's awesome! Really happy to hear people are benefiting from what we do.
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Are there plans to update the bulk reddit files at files.pushshift.io/reddit/ ? Looks like most/all of 2020 is missing and these are my main ingest source :)
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Yes. So to give some background, the last couple months have been very difficult since we have been moving our infrastructure into the cloud. We are going to start maintaining the monthly dumps again and get caught up as soon as possible. Realistically I would say that we
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