I never really thought about the automatic self upvote on Reddit and Lemmy. But after reading this article Dont let me like my own post, i’m wondering if we should just get rid of it. Its not really adding anything, or does it? Plus removing it would slightly simplify the code, and slightly less federation messages would get sent (probably unnoticable in practice).
I think we do need them because its s pain to have to manually upvote your own stuff anytime you do anything (its the same on minds were you have to upvote manually which is so annoying)