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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how exaclty does this pushshift work? I downloaded some zsts from it but what do I do with them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The file you downloaded is a compressed JSON file, it's not something you can really just look at. But it contains all the data needed to build a nice UI around.
I don't know what OS you are on but on linux you can run zstd -d -c file.zst | jq . and it will print everything in the file. It's not really readable though. Also it doesn't have any of the media content, only the text