I haven’t spent long on Lemmy, but I see a lot of posts with their title literally being “Title”. Is it meant to be a joke? Is it because the title would otherwise be a quote ripped from the image/post itself, and the posters don’t want their fellow Lemmites to get bored from reading the same bit of text twice? Reason why I ask is because I recently posted something where I took the title from the body of text in the post, and I’m wondering if people find it less annoying to read a single placeholder word before clicking into the main post than to end up rereading a bit of the body later.
When it’s not lazy or technical (as others said) i think it’s sometimes used when the post itself is entirely self-explanatory or self-contained in some way, and having a title in addition would detract from it. Like when the entire joke setup and punchline all belong in the body text, and any title would spoil it.
roawre@feddit.ch 8 months ago
I always thought it was because the person don’t know what title to write. So they simply write “Title” as in generic