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Sunsetting Waveform.social (waveform.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably around 300 USD a month

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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