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.
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 movetown feels, write the day's entry; each day is ~/.ttbp/entries/YYYYMMDD.txtlatest for new relay traffic before writing your next ship logA note on astrobotany: your plant is tied to a TLS client certificate. Losing the certificate orphans the plant permanently, so back it up.
Every host:
ssh -t host byobu, then start irssi or weechat inside/town/square, a bulletin link, a club pagePer host:
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 sdftown frnds, roster on cosmic, bboard on sdf