Hi there,

I have decided to take down waveform.social. There are too many nefarious actors trying to break it and I don’t have the time or energy to keep fighting them off.

For your information: Over the pas month I have had to:

  1. Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
  2. Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage… Twice.
  3. Repair Lemmy (or rather pictures) after it crashed because of full storage.

I will keep waveform.social active until Friday next week so you can pull data from here, though I expect most of it has been federated to other servers anyway.

  • DeadGemini@waveform.socialEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Daaaaaaaamn, my community was just getting some traction. It’s crazy people’s lives are so devoid of purpose that they choose to spend it attacking a relatively small music-based instance.

    Thanks for dealing with it as long as you did. Guess it’s time to pack up and move to another instance :/

  • segfault@waveform.socialEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I knew something must have been happening with the recent sporadic downtime over the past few days.

    A shame, but understandable. I’ve enjoyed my time here, thanks for all of your efforts in maintaining the instance!

  • canEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure this wasn’t an easy decision to make. Thank you for your time and energy up to this point.

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Sad to see this community go. lemmy.studio would probably be a good home for those people and communities that still need homes.

  • ChappIO@waveform.socialOPMEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I am aware that images aren’t loading properly right now. This is because the pictures engine crashed again and I wasn’t able to recover it this time.

  • DASEIN餓鬼@waveform.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    What a shame - I had wondered why my Memmy app kept failing to work but if I went via a browser without logging in Lemmy was still up and running.

    Thanks for the work you put into this, gutted it didn’t really take off, and I wish people would just fuck off with their efforts to break stuff for no apparent reason. Dickheads.

    • ChappIO@waveform.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not really. I could host this in a more robust place but the costs would be prohibitive.

      Of course, you could let everyone know where you’re going. I might follow too. There’s some talk in this post about a discord server.