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Waveform.social is shutting down (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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Cross-posted from !waveform@waveform.social

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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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

It's an interesfing case-study for the average user on what it really takes to run a social media platform. Does reddit have to deal with similar abuse? How many systems does it take to weed out bad actors? I think lemmy will need to add way more moderation systems for it to become truly viable at scale.

[-] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Yesw also gives an argument that joining a smaller instance is riskier. Not blaming the admins, but the fact that it requires that much maintenance/moderation make the instance more prone to suddenly disappear

[-] huginn@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago

It is possible that wasn't white noise storage but rather encrypted images.

[-] gsa4555@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Another one bites the dust

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