There are two different templates, one for JSON, one for RSS. I’ve edited the json one because that’s what micro.blog is pulling from to display my posts in the timeline.
But yes, I have taken the title field out - though I have added it back in the body of post - and if anyone subscribes to the json version, they won’t have a separate title field. But if they subscribe to the RSS version, they will have a title field, because I left that template alone.
I should probably just write up all the working parts to this scheme and put it in a separate post, so hopefully it makes more sense than this long and winding thread.