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.
I’ve been using this instance as a home for a while as a nice and place to be. Sorry to hear about all the trouble and thank you for all of your effort.