Cross-posted from [email protected]

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.

  • Quacksalber
    131·
    1 year ago

    It’s an interesfing case-study for the average user on what it really takes to run a social media platform. Does reddit have to deal with similar abuse? How many systems does it take to weed out bad actors? I think lemmy will need to add way more moderation systems for it to become truly viable at scale.

    • Wats0nsOP
      111·
      1 year ago

      Yesw also gives an argument that joining a smaller instance is riskier. Not blaming the admins, but the fact that it requires that much maintenance/moderation make the instance more prone to suddenly disappear