There are about 6 pages.dev domains spamming lemmy.world communities

The volume is definitely inorganic, and is across a wide range of communities

pages.dev is Cloudflare’s site hosting which can be used for free - there are likely many legitimate sites that use that domain, but the current flood is suspicious

chronicleresolve.pages.dev

thefreedomproject.pages.dev

versarch.pages.dev

dailypulse.pages.dev

newssphere-6fu.pages.dev

iniko.pages.dev

miniza.pages.dev

orino.pages.dev

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    3 months ago

    Yes it’s ridiculous, some kind of botspam linking random articles to random-related communities.

    “kids learn to cook at camp” -> cooking

    “Taylor swift should not endorse a candidate” -> swift (programming)

    “Cleveland guy remembers big fire”-> cleveland

    And on and on and on