@PinkMoff, what a cute picture! I can't parse the sentence, though?

$ haiku.rexx
The wrinkled sea crawls
While dying valleys decline.
Does the dull rock stand?

Haha, nice!!

That's because @kas has marked his ID as being a pub that is online 24×7 and accessible from the Internet.

A few people have written to me privately and asked how come my ID's lamp doesn't flicker as much as many pubs' lamps. For this I have no answer.

@PinkMoff, to be honest I can't remember what I did, but perhaps something like this:

  $ sbot publish --type about --about $ID --pub

Somebody, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I do not really mirror anything onto a server. My PC is online 24×7 and has a static IP address that is globally available.

from what I can tell pubs reconnect when you restart patchwork or at random from what I can tell

Pub connections are ever so ephemeral – and IMHO the heuristics are less than suboptimal. Look at this:

$ grep '^Mar 17' /var/log/sys.log | grep 'port 8008 (ssb) request' | grep 84.250.164.174 | wc -l
811

That's 811 incoming TCP connections from the same IP address in less than 10 hours, or more than 1 connection per minute.