diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d8aa751..f7b79fa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 praw
-pika
+redis
 influxdb
 psaw
 git+git://github.com/simon987/hexlib.git
diff --git a/retropublish.py b/retropublish.py
index 433d133..8baf806 100644
--- a/retropublish.py
+++ b/retropublish.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from run import publish, logger
 
 if len(sys.argv) != 3:
     print("Usage: ./retropublish.py post|comment subreddit")
+    quit(0)
 
 item_type = sys.argv[1]
 subreddit = sys.argv[2]
@@ -23,6 +24,5 @@ else:
 for item in gen:
     try:
         publish(item)
-        time.sleep(0.2)
     except Exception as e:
         logger.error(str(e) + ": " + traceback.format_exc())
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index e242035..d257776 100755
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from itertools import islice
 from logging import FileHandler, StreamHandler
 from queue import Queue
+import redis
 
-import pika
 import praw
 from hexlib.misc import buffered
 from hexlib.monitoring import Monitoring
@@ -34,16 +34,14 @@ logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
 
 def connect():
-    global reddit_channel
-    rabbit = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host="localhost"))
-    reddit_channel = rabbit.channel()
-    reddit_channel.exchange_declare(exchange="reddit", exchange_type="topic")
+    global r
+    r = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
 
 
 connect()
 
 REALTIME_DELAY = timedelta(seconds=60)
-MONITORING = True
+MONITORING = False
 
 if MONITORING:
     monitoring = Monitoring("reddit_feed", logger=logger, batch_size=50, flush_on_exit=True)
@@ -105,36 +103,22 @@ def serialize(thing):
         }
 
 
-@buffered(batch_size=5000, flush_on_exit=True)
-def _publish_buffered(items):
-    buckets = defaultdict(list)
-    for item in items:
-        buckets[item[0]].append(item)
-
-    for bucket in buckets.values():
-        routing_key, _ = bucket[0]
-        body = [item[1] for item in bucket]
-
-        while True:
-            try:
-                reddit_channel.basic_publish(
-                    exchange='reddit',
-                    routing_key=routing_key,
-                    body=json.dumps(body, separators=(',', ':'), ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True)
-                )
-                logger.debug("RabbitMQ: published %d items (%s)" % (len(body), routing_key))
-                break
-            except Exception as e:
-                logger.error(str(e))
-                time.sleep(0.5)
-
-
 def publish(thing):
     thing_type = type(thing).__name__.lower()
     j = serialize(thing)
     post_process(j)
+    routing_key = "%s.%s" % (thing_type, str(thing.subreddit).lower())
 
-    _publish_buffered([("%s.%s" % (thing_type, str(thing.subreddit).lower()), j)])
+    while True:
+        try:
+            r.rpush(
+                "q.reddit." + routing_key,
+                json.dumps(j, separators=(',', ':'), ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True)
+            )
+            break
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(str(e))
+            time.sleep(0.5)
 
 
 def publish_worker(q: Queue):