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

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 day ago

    We have communities, tags, and titles about as long(longer, I think?) as tweets used to be. There’s also the expandable description text, which seems plenty long enough to include even entire articles. If all that is not enough to determine that clicking a link is or isn’t worthwhile, the comments usually deliver.