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.

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    6·
    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.

  • DeadGemini@waveform.socialEnglish
    5·
    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 :/

  • HellAwaits@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Binette@waveform.socialEnglish
    2·
    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!

  • doomer@waveform.socialEnglish
    2·
    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.

  • Eugene@waveform.socialEnglish
    2·
    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.

  • segfault@waveform.socialEnglish
    2·
    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!

    • ChappIO@waveform.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      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.

  • DASEIN餓鬼@waveform.socialEnglish
    1·
    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.

  • Shadowbait@waveform.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.socialEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      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.socialOPMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.socialEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.worksEnglish
            1·
            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