this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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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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[–] DeadGemini@waveform.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 11 points 1 year ago

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 8 points 1 year ago

Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I'm sure this wasn't an easy decision to make. Thank you for your time and energy up to this point.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 1 year ago

From one small instance owner to another, I'm sorry that it has come to this for you

[–] ChappIO@waveform.social 6 points 1 year ago

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 6 points 1 year ago

Sad to see this community go. lemmy.studio would probably be a good home for those people and communities that still need homes.

[–] goosehorse@waveform.social 5 points 1 year ago

Bummer! Thank you for helping me get started with Lemmy, and good luck in your future endeavors!

[–] DASEIN@waveform.social 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] omglongitude@waveform.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for everything. Enjoyed my time here. Keep up the piano, drums, and music!

[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was the white noise those stupid posts with the 30 year old man with a pacifier in his mouth with a bunch of random words?

I've seen those everywhere and it's pathetic someone who's angry they can't get any action is doing this.

[–] ChappIO@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago

No it was a repeated upload of literal white noise images. Not even posts, just files uploaded.

[–] caska@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago

thanks for your time! all the best!

[–] favrion@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What am I supposed to do now? I just got acquainted.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quickly migrate your subscriptions/blocks using a tool like LASIM to a backup acct on another instance.

Thanks for setting it up and running it while you could.

[–] BareHandedPoopScoop@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anything we can do to help?

[–] ChappIO@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry to hear!

[–] Shadowbait@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 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

[–] ChappIO@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably around 300 USD a month

[–] Shadowbait@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago

I created a server. I haven't done much setup yet, but if anyone wants to join: https://discord.gg/CsGN9zzC

[–] doomer@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] eugene1970@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Binette@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] MatjoeP@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] inihaw@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

thank you 🙏🏽