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

[–] 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