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Sunsetting Waveform.social (waveform.social)
submitted 1 year ago by ChappIO@waveform.social to c/waveform@waveform.social
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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.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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