Sunsetting Waveform.social

3 years ago by ChappIO to c/waveform

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.

DeadGemini 16 points 3 years 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 :/

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segfault 9 points 3 years 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!

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carved_beats 7 points 3 years ago

Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!

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can 7 points 3 years ago

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

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goosehorse 6 points 3 years ago

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

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BlueEther 5 points 3 years ago

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

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HellAwaits 5 points 3 years ago

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ChappIO 4 points 3 years ago

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

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sabreW4K3 5 points 3 years ago

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

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ChappIO 5 points 3 years 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.

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DASEIN 5 points 3 years 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.

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BareHandedPoopScoop 4 points 3 years ago

Is there anything we can do to help?

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ChappIO 3 points 3 years 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.

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favrion 4 points 3 years ago

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

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can 2 points 3 years ago

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

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favrion 2 points 3 years ago

Okay.

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can 3 points 3 years ago

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sirbrialliance 4 points 3 years ago

😢

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SpicyLiquidJar 3 points 3 years ago

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

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Binette 2 points 3 years 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!

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Shadowbait 2 points 3 years 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.

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Shadowbait 0 points 3 years 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.

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can 5 points 3 years 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.

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Shadowbait 3 points 3 years 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.

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can 2 points 3 years 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

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ChappIO 2 points 3 years 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.

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BareHandedPoopScoop 3 points 3 years ago

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?

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ChappIO 3 points 3 years ago

Probably around 300 USD a month

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Shadowbait 2 points 3 years ago

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

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caska 2 points 3 years ago

thanks for your time! all the best!

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Blaze 2 points 3 years ago

Sorry to hear!

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omglongitude 2 points 3 years ago

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

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doomer 2 points 3 years 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.

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inihaw 1 point 3 years ago

thank you 🙏🏽

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MatjoeP 1 point 3 years 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?

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eugene1970 1 point 3 years 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.

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