Date: 2026-01-08 · basis: web publication date; phenomenon predates article
FalseFaucet’s retrospective explains “golden blocks” as posts repeatedly displayed at the top of linked replies, like bookmarks or chapters. He explicitly says the mechanism was not conclusively understood. Preserve the caching/truncation explanation as a community hypothesis rather than claiming to know Twitter internals.
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Every so often over the last few years, if you hadn’t already muted the thread, you would have seen pretty often a post from the stackchain thread. There would be the most recent buy or stackjoin or meme, but at the top of the linked replies would be a consistent block, the same one you’d see on your feed for WEEKS at a time. As if it…https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/golden-block-the-shiny-chapters-of-stackchain/
FalseFaucet’s retrospective explains “golden blocks” as posts repeatedly displayed at the top of linked replies, like bookmarks or chapters. He explicitly says the mechanism was not conclusively…
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