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.

  • shagie@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    There are some people who just want to watch the world burn.

    A small lemmy site is often has lax administration and no mitigation for the attacks and so it is easy to point a DDOS at it and take it down and then the attackers get to watch people complain about it.

    Additionally, the “white noise file uploads” are likely encrypted content rather than “I just want to fill up the database”. I’d be willing to bet that it is CSAM material.

    People leaving reddit are barely a blip on most /r’s and the Lemmy’s growth for the past month is less than that of a popular cat sub on Reddit.

    Spez would also likely try to avoid doing things that are illegal and would put him or Reddit in legal jeopardy. Random DDOS fall into that category. Spez may be an ass, but he’s more than likely an ass that would rather not waste his time with things that could send him to jail.