They’re trying really hard to make their AI-plagiarized slop “news” site happen. You’ll see posts linking to primestories24 [dot] com but they’re AI slop regurgitating likely legit news articles. Every “reporter” has some generic profile that is most likely the system prompt used for everything they “write”.
If you see a post to that domain, report it as spam. The accounts all look similar to this:
- @Bellar36@beehaw.org
- @Belinda42@lemmy.wtf
- @tatyana43@piefed.ca
- @Graham43@sopuli.xyz
- @Belinda43@fedia.io
- @belinda35@piefed.social
- @PrimeStories247@lemmy.ca (First ban-evasion alt)
- @PrimeStories24@sh.itjust.works (Original account)
This list isn’t comprehensive.
Update: They are now using sockpuppet alts to vote/boost their posts. Just found @Babrah28@ttrpg.network that way and, surprise surprise, it was registered the same time as the latest batch.
Note: Technically the above is violating rule 7 if you consider spambots to be members. I don’t, but if this is a problem, let me know, and I’ll remove that part.
The domain was registered in May of 2026 and is roughly when these accounts started popping up.
Domain Name: PRIMESTORIES24.COM
Registry Domain ID: 3105727536_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.web4africa.net
Registrar URL: http://hostafrica.com/
Updated Date: 2026-06-19T10:01:29Z
Creation Date: 2026-05-31T12:16:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2027-05-31T12:16:00Z
Registrar: Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
Registrar IANA ID: 664
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web4africa.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6465850088
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: DAN1.HOST-WW.NET
Name Server: DAN2.HOST-WW.NET
DNSSEC: unsigned
Admins, I’m aware Lemmy is severely lacking in moderation capability, but one thing it does have is domain blocking. That prevents posting to those domains and it now seems to prevent links to those domains from federating in.
I bet that’s just the name they entered for the organization. Does it even have to be tied to anything real or do DNS registrars just accept any string for that field?
Having registered plenty of domains I can tell you that it needs a valid address but that address can be some random kebab shop the other side of the country, they don’t care.