This reading’s conditionsAs of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · 7 platforms · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 07:20:57Z
- Non-discourse filter, not applied yet
- Spam, bot and incentive records haven’t been removed: their labels agree with a stronger model at kappa 0.43, below the threshold of 0.60
How records were linked to the subject
- Unambiguous alias, V1
- 85 records linked. Precision 100.0% (95% interval 91.2% to 100.0%), n 40 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
- Unambiguous alias, V2
- 923 records linked. Precision 93.3% (95% interval 84.1% to 97.4%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
- Ambiguous alias, rule, V1
- 6 records linked. Precision 95.0% (95% interval 83.5% to 98.6%), n 40 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
- Ambiguous alias, rule, V2
- 116 records linked. Precision 98.3% (95% interval 91.1% to 99.7%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
- Ambiguous alias, model, V1
- 44 records not counted. Records whose only match to DeepSeek is an ambiguous name no rule settled aren’t counted: 43 on Reddit, 1 on arXiv
- Ambiguous alias, model, V2
- 224 records not counted. Records whose only match to DeepSeek is an ambiguous name no rule settled aren’t counted: 224 on Reddit
Measured statements
In development Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
On Reddit, 820 distinct people posted about DeepSeek between 30 March and 5 April 2026: 1,121 records, an estimated 0.38% of that week's Reddit records about AI, leaving out templated automated records (99.7% of these records had an identifiable author).
Reddit · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · author coverage 99.7% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
6 more statements withheld. n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. arXiv records are articles, which have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Withheld for platforms not counted this week: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa.
What this reading rests on
| Platform | Days counted | How the records were collected |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive | |
| Hacker News | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive |
| arXiv | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive1 day late heavy |
Not counted: Bluesky, YouTube and Google News, collected under an earlier method.
Not counted: Exa, not being collected yet.
A day counts once it has settled: once the records still expected for it are below the threshold, or, for records loaded afterwards from an archive, once they’re loaded. Coverage day by day is in this reading’s conditions. How coverage is recorded.
This reading was made with methods that are still being validated. Every figure says which state it’s in.
Why: Its methods are still being validated.
- Released
- 2 Oct 2026
- Release
- 2026-W14
- Window
- 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026
- Version
- 4 · no revisions
- Next release
- Wednesday 15 Apr 2026
- Method
- 005c-series-v3.1
DeepSeek in each platform’s table
Where DeepSeek sits among every ranked subject on each platform. The heavy mark is DeepSeek; every thin mark is another subject.
#12 of 43 on Reddit820 people · Claude 14,058 (#1)
43 ranked subjects, each a tick on Reddit’s own people scale, 0 to 14,058. 42 more subjects aren’t ranked: their people figures are hidden (n 0–18 people, below the threshold of 20), so they aren’t drawn.
Not ranked on Hacker News: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
Distinct people who posted about each subject on each platform, 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, from release 2026-W14’s summary table (published). Each strip is on its own scale and nothing is added across platforms: one person can post on several. arXiv, Google News and Exa carry articles, which have no authors, so they have no ranking by people.
Attention
How many people posted about DeepSeek on each platform, and DeepSeek’s share of that platform’s records. One row per platform, each on its own terms.
n 1,121 records · author coverage 99.7% · 7 days: 7 backfilled · sample: 10 records, one per author
Not counted this week. Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa have no day in this window that counts, so they have no figures here.
Hacker News. People hidden: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and records hidden: n 2 records, below the threshold of 20 records.
arXiv. People not applicable: arXiv records are articles, which have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Share and records hidden: n 7 records, below the threshold of 20 records.
Records published 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms. Share is DeepSeek’s records over all records AIDRAN captured on that platform in the window. Reddit’s records are its posts and comments. A normal share is deepSeek's share of each platform's posts in the 13 earlier stored weeks of the same era (2026-W01, 2026-W02, 2026-W03, 2026-W04, 2026-W05, 2026-W06, 2026-W07, 2026-W08, 2026-W09, 2026-W10, 2026-W11, 2026-W12, 2026-W13), per platform. Its figures are in those readings. Choose any number to see what it rests on and the records behind it.
Stored weeks
DeepSeek in every week AIDRAN has stored so far, four weeks at a time (three on a phone), opening on this reading’s week.
W12–W14
W11–W14
People
W11
W12
W13
W14
Share of Reddit records
W11
W12
W13
W14
W10 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 7 March 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 31 May 2026
W38 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: capture began at 00:24 UTC on 17 September 2026
Bluesky
People
Hidden
Hidden
Hidden
Hidden
W11
W12
W13
W14
Share of Bluesky records
Hidden
Hidden
Hidden
Hidden
W11
W12
W13
W14
W01 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 29 December to 4 January 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W02 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 5 to 11 January 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W03 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 12 to 18 January 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W04 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 19 to 25 January 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W05 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 26 January to 1 February 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W06 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 2 to 8 February 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W07 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 9 to 15 February 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W08 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 16 to 22 February 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W09 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 23 February to 1 March 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W10 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 2 to 7 March 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W10 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 8 March 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W10 coverage-limited: Partial day on Bluesky: partial capture on 8 March 2026
W11 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 9 to 15 March 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W12 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 16 to 22 March 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W13 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 23 to 29 March 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W15 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 6 to 12 April 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W15 coverage-limited: Low capture on Bluesky: 849 records captured on 11 April 2026, 0 records captured on 12 April 2026
W16 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 13 to 19 April 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W17 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 20 to 26 April 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W18 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 27 April to 3 May 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W19 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 4 to 10 May 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W19 coverage-limited: Low capture on Bluesky: 685 records captured on 9 May 2026, 0 records captured on 10 May 2026
W20 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 11 to 17 May 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W20 coverage-limited: Low capture on Bluesky: 0 records captured on 11 May 2026, 0 records captured on 12 May 2026, 0 records captured on 13 May 2026, 0 records captured on 14 May 2026, 15 records captured on 15 May 2026, 0 records captured on 16 May 2026, 0 records captured on 17 May 2026
W21 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 18 to 24 May 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W21 coverage-limited: Low capture on Bluesky: 1 records captured on 18 May 2026, 0 records captured on 19 May 2026, 0 records captured on 20 May 2026, 0 records captured on 21 May 2026, 0 records captured on 22 May 2026, 0 records captured on 23 May 2026, 0 records captured on 24 May 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Bluesky records from 25 to 31 May 2026 were collected under an earlier method, not the current lane’s rules, so those days aren’t counted
W22 coverage-limited: Partial day on Bluesky: partial capture on 31 May 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Low capture on Bluesky: 2948 records captured on 31 May 2026
W23 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 1 to 7 June 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W24 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 8 to 14 June 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W25 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 15 to 21 June 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W26 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 22 to 28 June 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W27 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 29 June to 5 July 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W28 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 6 to 12 July 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W29 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 13 to 19 July 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W30 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 20 to 26 July 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W31 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 27 July to 2 August 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W32 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 3 to 9 August 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W33 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 10 to 16 August 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W34 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 17 to 23 August 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W35 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 24 to 30 August 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W36 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 31 August to 6 September 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W37 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 7 to 13 September 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W38 coverage-limited: Bluesky wasn’t being collected yet on 14 to 16 September 2026, and no archive covers them, so those days aren’t counted
W38 coverage-limited: Partial day on Bluesky: capture began at 00:46 UTC on 17 September 2026
DeepSeek’s people and share of platform records, W01–W39, 39 stored weeks. Each chart is on its own scale from all of them. All 39 are in development; the open dot is this reading.
Communities
The communities the conversation about DeepSeek happened in, grouped by platform.
Redditeach track is DeepSeek’s 1,121 Reddit records
- r/DeepSeek users
- r/LocalLLaMA builders
- r/AIDungeon
- r/ChatGPT users
- r/ClaudeAI users
The five communities this reading stores; the rest of the track is records in communities it doesn’t list.
Hacker News
arXiv
Records about DeepSeek by community, 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. Each platform is drawn on its own scale. The word after each community is its type: who is there, not what it’s about (users are people who use one AI product; builders build with AI). A record counts once, in the community it was posted in.
Change
Compared with the previous reading of DeepSeek, for 23–29 Mar 2026.
| Measure | 23–29 Mar 2026 | 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| People posting about DeepSeek, Reddit · provisional | 795n 1,111 records | n 1,121 records |
| DeepSeek’s share of Reddit records · provisional | 0.4%n 1,111 records | n 1,121 records |
In every value: records not about AI or unclear removed (relevance run 61); templated automated records removed on Reddit and Bluesky (templated-repetition rule run 518).
12 measures not compared, and why
- People posting about DeepSeek, Bluesky. n 0 people between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about DeepSeek, YouTube. n 0 people between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about DeepSeek, Hacker News. n 0 people between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DeepSeek, arXiv. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about DeepSeek, Google News. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about DeepSeek, Exa. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- DeepSeek’s share of Bluesky records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek’s share of YouTube records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek’s share of Hacker News records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 2 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: n 2 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek’s share of arXiv records. n 6 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 7 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: n 6 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: n 7 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek’s share of Google News records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek’s share of Exa records. n 0 posts between 23 and 29 March 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 30 March and 5 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 23 and 29 March 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 23 and 29 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 30 March and 5 April 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 30 March and 5 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
Change compares this reading with the previous stored reading of the same subject, usually last week’s, and both endpoints stay visible with their dates. Each value carries its n; open it for its full conditions, coverage included. Stored weeks, above, cross eras, which marks a change in how weeks were captured: March era weeks were rebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May, Archive backfill weeks were backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only) and September era weeks were captured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
Conditions
What every figure on this page rests on.
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 07:20:57Z
- Records without facts
- 0
- Author coverage basis
- records with an identifiable platform identity; article sources have none by definition
Coverage in this window, day by day for each platform, is drawn once: in the conditions rail beside the measured statements.
Coverage in this window
- 2026-03-30 · backfilled
- 2026-03-31 · backfilled
- 2026-04-01 · backfilled
- 2026-04-02 · backfilled
- 2026-04-03 · backfilled
- 2026-04-04 · backfilled
- 2026-04-05 · backfilled
Bluesky
- 2026-03-30 · earlier method
- 2026-03-31 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-01 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-02 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-03 · earlier method
- 2026-04-04 · earlier method
- 2026-04-05 · earlier method
YouTube
- 2026-03-30 · earlier method
- 2026-03-31 · earlier method
- 2026-04-01 · earlier method
- 2026-04-02 · earlier method
- 2026-04-03 · earlier method
- 2026-04-04 · earlier method
- 2026-04-05 · earlier method
Hacker News
- 2026-03-30 · backfilled
- 2026-03-31 · backfilled
- 2026-04-01 · backfilled
- 2026-04-02 · backfilled
- 2026-04-03 · backfilled
- 2026-04-04 · backfilled
- 2026-04-05 · backfilled
arXiv
- 2026-03-30 · backfilled · late heavy
- 2026-03-31 · backfilled
- 2026-04-01 · backfilled
- 2026-04-02 · backfilled
- 2026-04-03 · backfilled
- 2026-04-04 · backfilled
- 2026-04-05 · backfilled
Google News
- 2026-03-30 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-03-31 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-01 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-02 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-03 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-04 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-05 · earlier method · late heavy
Exa
- 2026-03-30 · not started
- 2026-03-31 · not started
- 2026-04-01 · not started
- 2026-04-02 · not started
- 2026-04-03 · not started
- 2026-04-04 · not started
- 2026-04-05 · not started
Excluded: posts not about AI or unclear
Records linked to DeepSeek that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Reddit
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 12 records · Reddit · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Records linked to DeepSeek that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Hacker News
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 records · Hacker News · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Records linked to DeepSeek that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, arXiv
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 records · arXiv · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Excluded: templated automated posts
Records linked to DeepSeek that templated-repetition rule run 518 flags as one account repeating a template, Reddit
Flags from rule run 518: clusters of 4 or more near-identical records in the week where one account posted at least half. In blind checks of samples, about 9 in 10 flags were one account repeating a template.
n 33 records · Reddit · 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Not counted this week, so not shown: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa.
These conditions were frozen when the reading was created and are never recomputed.
Not in this reading yet
Parts this method doesn’t produce yet. They’re named, never shown as empty.
- Frames
- Frames aren’t measured yet.
- Register
- Register isn’t measured yet.
- Frame evidence
- Quotes for frames come with frames. The quotes here are the fixed samples behind this reading’s figures.
Cite this reading
In development Published 2 Oct 2026. Release 2026-W14. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'DeepSeek', release 2026-W14, reading r_6c3cb4d6bc78 (v4). Published 2 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_6c3cb4d6bc78
AIDRAN is the author and the publisher, so the citation names it once. Cite the permanent link, never a browse path.
Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with this citation.
Context from the week
News and analysis about DeepSeek published that week, found and checked for relevance. It’s outside AIDRAN’s measurement: no figure on this page comes from it.