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.

  • Shadowbait@waveform.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        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.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.socialOPMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.