Reddit is the most popular news community in the United States, serving as both the most intriguing corner of the internet and a highly organized hub of collective intelligence. In this comprehensive social news platform and decentralized online community, diverse individuals coalesce around shared interests, fostering organizational structure and a strong sense of belonging. Reddit's slogan is "The front page of the internet," emphasizing its role as a pioneer in crowd-sourced information dissemination. Within Reddit, users can browse and submit links to internet content or publish original posts (Original Post, OP). Other users can vote submissions up or down, with high-scoring content promoted to the platform's front page. Additionally, users may comment on submissions and engage in threaded discussions, thereby forming an interactive online community. Reddit hosts over one million subreddits spanning diverse domains including news, politics, sports, music, and entertainment. CnOpenData has acquired comprehensive post and comment data from all Reddit communities, encompassing an exceptionally large sample of post texts (2.9 billion entries) and comment texts (18.9 billion entries). The dataset uniquely preserves comment hierarchies and post-comment linkages, facilitating scholarly analysis.
Data Scale
Time Coverage
As of 2024
Field Specifications
Sample Data
Reddit Full-Community Post Information Table
Reddit Full-Community Comment Information Table
Relevant Literature
- Indranil Ghosh, Esteban Alfaro-Cortés, Matías Gámez, Noelia García-Rubio, 2024, "Reflections of public perception of Russia-Ukraine conflict and Metaverse on the financial outlook of Metaverse coins: Fresh evidence from Reddit sentiment analysis", International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume 93.
Data Update Frequency
Annual updates