====== Keeping a Tilde Account Active ======

Shared machines reward regular logins. The two common ways a tilde presence decays are idle accounts (some hosts prune them) and dead sessions (IRC dropping off when the server reboots). A light routine keeps both from happening.

===== Daily =====

  * Tend your plants: botany (''town botany'') and astrobotany both punish neglect: one watering lasts 24 hours, and about 5 dry days kills the plant. Visitors' waterings count on town, so watering a neighbour's plant is the social move
  * If you keep a diary with ''town feels'', write the day's entry; each day is ''~/.ttbp/entries/YYYYMMDD.txt''
  * If you are on cosmic.voyage, check ''latest'' for new relay traffic before writing your next ship log

A note on astrobotany: your plant is tied to a TLS client certificate. Losing the certificate orphans the plant permanently, so back it up.

===== Weekly =====

Every host:

  * Re-create byobu/tmux sessions; they die on server reboot: ''ssh -t host byobu'', then start irssi or weechat inside
  * Check local mail and guestbook files
  * Contribute something to shared spaces: a file in tilde.town's ''/town/square'', a bulletin link, a club page

Per host:

  * Keep publishing: a gemlog post (''gemlog/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.gmi'' with a dated link at the top of the index, the convention aggregators subscribe to), a bashblog post (''bb post''), a phlog entry on sdf
  * Watch for neighbour activity: ''town frnds'', ''roster'' on cosmic, ''bboard'' on sdf
  * Read the motd and host news; rules and available services change

===== See Also =====

  * [[tilde:start|tilde.town]]
  * [[tilde:join|Joining a Tilde]]
  * [[tilde:commands|Commands]]
  * [[tilde:apps|Tilde Apps]]
  * [[tilde:town_square|Town Square]]
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