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?
Book title capitalization should be used when the title is used as a title… which actually doesn’t happen all the time.
Your title right now is more deserving of a grammatically correct sentence, rather than a book title
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”.
there is a strong mistrust of capitalism here on lemmy. don’t let big letter dictate how you type.
power to the little letters!
let’sSwitch overTo camelCase!
youreDoingItWrongItsWrittenWithoutAnySpacesJustLikeImDoingRightNowGodDammitIHateThis!
Probably culture dependent. A lot of people are not native English speakers
I dont think there is any rule or requirement to follow proper grammar on Lemmy, or the internet for that matter. It would be nice, but is not likely to happen.
How is language supposed to evolve if we just stick to what’s “proper” all the time. As long as it makes sense and conveys the message well, what is the difference?
am like lowercase
I heard that was a young person trend?
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am young person also ._.
why Does it matter?
It doesn’t really matter. I was curious more than anything.
My feed is only posts with capitalized titles
For me it’s the opposite. Weird.
Lemmy apps are so good that everyone is creating content from their phones
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am like lowercase
