cross-posted from: https://waveform.social/post/310138

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.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
    963·
    1 year ago

    I mean, that instance had open registrations with no checks (meaning no email required, no manual approvement, no captcha). Not surprising people were misusing it - you can just automatically create hundreds of accounts in a few seconds.

  • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.online
    46·
    1 year ago

    As one Admin to another, I’m sad to hear that we’re losing a good instance. And, I’m sorry that people ruined your fun.

    Thanks for all you’ve done. All the best to you.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Damn, I was just about to create an account there. I guess lemmy.studio is the only other relatively “large” instance?

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    I am sorry that your work has been ruined. Thank you for all the time and effort you put in, these instances are what makes lemmy a unique place to be. I hope in the future when lemmy has grown up a bit there will be tools so people like you with a passion for creating a community can do so without this sort of strife. <3

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Like when it happens with FOSS, admins are starting to burn out, better to have at least two people working on a instance IMO (A bus factor of more then one).

  • 1984
    92·
    1 year ago

    I’m really sorry to hear this. If someone wants to target an instance and create enough work so it becomes impossible to maintain it, they can.

    This is why we need to spread out on many different instances. Maybe you have noticed that every time Lemmy.world is attacked, there’s almost no content anymore. We can change that by spreading out and posting from different instances.

    If a few of them are attacked, then it doesn’t affect the entire fediverse.