Structure and Dynamics of Growing r/AITA Reddit Thread Networks (2023)
A Reddit dataset of 6,252,711 posts and comments, 6,279 AITA submissions, 6,239,711 nodes, 6,133,386 reply edges, collected by Zenodo contributor via Reddit API, September–October 2023. Each record contains post/comment id, reply graph (parent_id), title, VADER sentiment, readability (Fog + FK-GL), 10 emotion lexicon scores (anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, trust, anger, positive, negative), valence/arousal/dominance. 2M+ r/AmITheAsshole posts and comments with pre-computed emotion lexicon scores, readability metrics, and VADER sentiment across multiple time windows (all-time, monthly, weekly, yearly); includes full reply graph structure.. Suitable for Emotion dynamics in online moral judgment, reply network analysis, readability and engagement research, temporal thread growth modeling..
Cite this dataset at
reddit-aita-threads.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 6,239,711 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
reddit-aita-threads- Authors
- Goglia, Diletta; Vega, Davide
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Structure and dynamics of growing networks of Reddit threads
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1007/s41109-024-00654-y
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 6,239,711
- Nodes
- 6,239,711
- Edges
- 6,133,386 (directed)
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2018/2023 (2010s, 2020s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/13620016 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 28.4 GB across 1087 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Structure and dynamics of growing networks of Reddit threads
Diletta Goglia, Davide Vega
Journal Article · Applied Network Science · 2024
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Goglia_2024,
title = {Structure and dynamics of growing networks of Reddit threads},
volume = {9},
issn = {2364-8228},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41109-024-00654-y},
doi = {10.1007/s41109-024-00654-y},
number = {1},
journal = {Applied Network Science},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
author = {Goglia, Diletta and Vega, Davide},
year = {2024},
month = Aug
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Goglia, D., & Vega, D. (2024). Structure and Dynamics of Growing r/AITA Reddit Thread Networks (2023) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-024-00654-y
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Goglia, Diletta, and Davide Vega. Structure and Dynamics of Growing r/AITA Reddit Thread Networks (2023). 2024, doi.org/10.1007/s41109-024-00654-y.