I would assume people would capitalize their titles in posts since that’s the standard pretty much anywhere else like on YouTube or news sites, and that’s what you learn to do in school. Why is it only different on forum platforms like Lemmy or Reddit?
Because People Often Don’t Know How To Write A Concise Succinct Title And It’s Annoying To Read A Long Badly Written Title In Title Case
You’re not wrong, I was somewhat put off reading that. I can’t quite put it in to words but it felt different.
there is a strong mistrust of capitalism here on lemmy. don’t let big letter dictate how you type.
power to the little letters!
Lemmy apps are so good that everyone is creating content from their phones
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Because they’re more like headlines than book titles.
My guess is the more casual nature of the communication going on. It’s less formal than putting in the effort of creating a published work like an article or video. Here you can just put the words in a box and hit go, your content is on the internet. Articles and videos require more time and effort to put together, so it would make sense to me for those to appear more formal, even if the content isn’t the most serious.
A real title, one that you would typically capitalize the first letter of each word, does not have to be a sentence and often isn’t. But many “titles” on forums like this are really sentences which capture the whole essence of what’s being asked or stated, like your “title” does. As I browsed my “front page” (for lack of a better term) just now, indeed I found that titles followed that rule.
Oh, so they’re basically just used as summary lines instead of titles?
Exactly. Often the title is longer than the text of the post, and may even just say “title”.
am like lowercase
I heard that was a young person trend?
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