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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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm really sorry to hear this. If someone wants to target an instance and create enough work so it becomes impossible to maintain it, they can.

This is why we need to spread out on many different instances. Maybe you have noticed that every time Lemmy.world is attacked, there's almost no content anymore. We can change that by spreading out and posting from different instances.

If a few of them are attacked, then it doesn't affect the entire fediverse.