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Small instance has to shut down - Sunsetting Waveform.social (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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:

  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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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Damn, I was just about to create an account there. I guess lemmy.studio is the only other relatively "large" instance?

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee is kinda big

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I guess I should've specified, "music-oriented instance".

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I didn't know about lemmy.studio, thank you.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

For music, yes. Check out my community.

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

It seems so