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.
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 :/
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!
Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!
I’m sure this wasn’t an easy decision to make. Thank you for your time and energy up to this point.
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.
Bummer! Thank you for helping me get started with Lemmy, and good luck in your future endeavors!
Sad to see this community go. lemmy.studio would probably be a good home for those people and communities that still need homes.
From one small instance owner to another, I’m sorry that it has come to this for you
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.
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No it was a repeated upload of literal white noise images. Not even posts, just files uploaded.
Thanks for everything. Enjoyed my time here. Keep up the piano, drums, and music!
What am I supposed to do now? I just got acquainted.
Quickly migrate your subscriptions/blocks using a tool like LASIM to a backup acct on another instance.
Okay.
😢
Is there anything we can do to help?
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.
Thanks for setting it up and running it while you could.