Lemmy is by default a link aggregator which means users who are browsing posts get 2 things only:
- Link.
- Title.
From my experience, literally those 25 extra characters could just include that word that can be the word that will give a meaning to the previous 200 characters. Especially that the main competitor for Lemmy (Reddit) allows for up to 300 characters titles.
Overall, it seems pretty essential to give people more context about the link they about to click.
Example where extra characters would highly improve the title: https://programming.dev/post/34472919
Nay
There will never be a limit that won’t (rarely) inconvenience someone. (Unless they make the limit absolutely ridiculous or remove the limit all together.)
Your list is missing some things. Link, title, thumbnail, author name, link domain name, upvotes/downvotes total, community, instance, how long ago it was posted, and many other things. But perhaps most importantly, the post body. More context is what the body of the post is for.
Also, why 225-250? Why not 350? Why not 600? Why should we expect that if we set it to 250 or 300 that there won’t still be a threshold just a few more characters away from that limit that would supposedly improve things for another 0.01% of posts?
I don’t agree that a longer title field would even be “better” for the particular post you linked. The linked post could be titled something like “New Executive Order: ‘Preventing Woke AI In The Federal Government’” and if you didn’t think the linked-to page could speak entirely for itself, you could elaborate at great length in the post body.