First of all, I’m not a mod, just a curious user. I was told the rules exist because it was a rule of the original reddit and the community demands it. For me personally, it feels like I’m told how to have fun, so I’m very curious if you like/dislike this rule or if you’re indifferent.
I am a mod, but i am so out of passion. The original egg_irl on reddit is responsible for me finding myself as a trans woman.
The title rule exists to keep this place light-hearted. there are other places on this instance for deeper conversation, but this is first and foremost a place to share memes about eggs and gender questioning people and being trans.
The vast majority of community reports here are about breaking the title rule. Every once in a while there’s a spam report, or a report of stuff being off-topic, but mostly? just people breaking the title rule.
I get it. I thought the title rule was silly at first too. but it helps keep this place light-hearted and a place where people can flirt with their gender and/or dip their toes in the water safely, and make silly memes about the whole thing, without having to get serious about it and confront deep things within yourself you’re not ready to yet.
Sure, some random gru’s plan meme may topple you into that place anyway, but that’s the point. The only person who should crack an egg is the person inside that egg, and only through personal realization and self-understanding. The title rule helps us not step over that incredibly important boundary line.
Also, another point here: In the rules you’ll find a long list of content warnings. The title rule serves to make sure anyone who wants to avoid any type of post can do so without having to look at the content.
Anything you might want to put in a title, instead off egg_emojis_irl, you can put in the description underneath your meme. still get to say what you want to say, but it’s all post-click, and not just appearing on someone’s feed.
I feel like tagging shouldn’t be optional, like they should be required to tag it as transmasc, transfem, nonbinary, nonspecific in addtion to a content warning if applicable, after all a transmasc person clicking on transfem memes could make them dysphoric and vice versa, hence why flairs are mandatory on the Reddit one.
I very much agree with this, if only people in the Reddit version cared about this, many of the people I met there believed it was their duty to force people out who aren’t ready, either because they didn’t know better or didn’t care. Also Reddit unlike Lemmy has the flaw of showing fully maximized posts in the feed so the title thing doesn’t help, the bad stuff will hit you as you’re scrolling.