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:
- Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
- Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage… Twice.
- 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.
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.
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.
Makes me sad that people are ruining good things for what? No reason!
!waveform@waveform.social if you want to comment on the thread
Damn, I was just about to create an account there. I guess lemmy.studio is the only other relatively “large” instance?
