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:
- 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.
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.
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