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I agree. many times I see communities that the only activity is link posting. not even comments.
i kinda understand that to be the case somewhere, starting new community is not easy.
i was thinking more about posts where you have some headline, no picture, the post's body is "click here to prove you are not a bot", and the poster didn't care enough to fix that.
I think the "prove you are not a bot" and the preview picture (if any) are often automatically-added. It gets complicated, bc the picture (for example) MAY be added by the posting software and/or the server, and the picture may or may not propagate. Whether or not this happens depends on the version (of posting software and server), how it was configured, and where it is hosted. Sometimes, the preview will not be generated because the content being previewed will disallow this -- for example, youtube previews on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee used to be automatically generated, but I think youtube changed something so that doesn't happen any more. Furthermore, the reading client will sometimes generate preview pictures anyway. CAVEAT: I only partially understand all this.
Summary: preview generation on the fediverse is a complex issue.
and when any of what you said happens, you go and manually edit it. that is the effort i am talking about.