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:
- Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
- Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage... Twice.
- 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.
36 Comments
DeadGemini@waveform.social · 16 pts · 3y
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.social · 9 pts · 3y
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!
carved_beats@waveform.social · 7 pts · 3y
Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!
can@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y
I'm sure this wasn't an easy decision to make. Thank you for your time and energy up to this point.
goosehorse@waveform.social · 6 pts · 3y
Bummer! Thank you for helping me get started with Lemmy, and good luck in your future endeavors!
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 5 pts · 3y
From one small instance owner to another, I'm sorry that it has come to this for you
ChappIO@waveform.social · 5 pts · 3y
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.
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 5 pts · 3y
Sad to see this community go. lemmy.studio would probably be a good home for those people and communities that still need homes.
HellAwaits@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
ChappIO@waveform.social · 4 pts · 3y
No it was a repeated upload of literal white noise images. Not even posts, just files uploaded.
DASEIN@waveform.social · 5 pts · 3y
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.
favrion@waveform.social · 4 pts · 3y
What am I supposed to do now? I just got acquainted.
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
Quickly migrate your subscriptions/blocks using a tool like LASIM to a backup acct on another instance.
favrion@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
Okay.
can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
LASIM link
BareHandedPoopScoop@waveform.social · 4 pts · 3y
Is there anything we can do to help?
ChappIO@waveform.social · 3 pts · 3y
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.
sirbrialliance@waveform.social · 4 pts · 3y
😢
SpicyLiquidJar@waveform.social · 3 pts · 3y
Thanks for setting it up and running it while you could.
Shadowbait@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
It was nice while it lasted, thanks for all the effort you put in!
So, where are you going next? There are at least a few sizeable synth forums out there, and it might be nice if most of us migrated to the same place. I've been back on Reddit a bit, but not sure I want to continue that.
Shadowbait@waveform.social · 0 pts · 3y
Just a thought - we could start a Discord server. It's not really the same kind of medium, but could still have channels for different topics (music production, synthesizers, etc.) and much easier to maintain I think.
can@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3y
Since we're here, shouldn't we take this opportunity to make a Matrix chat instead? Private, centralized services are iffy. There's good apps too. I like Element but I haven't really tried the alternatives.
Shadowbait@waveform.social · 3 pts · 3y
I'm not opposed to whatever someone else wants to set up, I just mentioned Discord because it seemed like a low-effort solution. The upside to a corporation running it is that DDOS prevention and such are someone else's problem.
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
I'm not as familiar with matrix as I am Lemmy, but we could just start a room (or several) on a reliable preexisting server
ChappIO@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
With the new forum feature of discord this might not be a bad idea.
Let me know if you’ll follow through. I’d probably join.
BareHandedPoopScoop@waveform.social · 3 pts · 3y
Discord is so messy. If you come back after a few weeks or months, it's difficult to get a handle on what's been happening.
This is a shame. I'll look into more robust hosting. How prohibitive a cost are we talking about roughly?
ChappIO@waveform.social · 3 pts · 3y
Probably around 300 USD a month
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3y
Wow
Shadowbait@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
I created a server. I haven't done much setup yet, but if anyone wants to join: https://discord.gg/CsGN9zzC
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3y
Sorry to hear!
doomer@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
I'm sorry to hear that you've had to deal with all of that. I completely understand the decision, though. Thank you for all of the effort you have put into this.
Maybe we could make a community on another lemmy instance, sort of in commemoration? I'm always open for more music communities.
caska@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
thanks for your time! all the best!
Binette@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
Thank you very much for keeping it active until now! It's not easy to manage a server, so I appreciate your efforts to maintain it and understand how hard it is to do it alone.
See you guys!
omglongitude@waveform.social · 2 pts · 3y
Thanks for everything. Enjoyed my time here. Keep up the piano, drums, and music!
eugene1970@waveform.social · 1 pts · 3y
I’ve been using this instance as a home for a while as a nice and place to be. Sorry to hear about all the trouble and thank you for all of your effort.
inihaw@waveform.social · 1 pts · 3y
thank you 🙏🏽
MatjoeP@waveform.social · 1 pts · 3y
Oh no.... I just started to invest a bit of time in the Community.. What would be the best way to transfer a Community into another instance?