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 it’s good to have it. The number represents the number of person finding the post interesting. Surely the OP would be the first one to find it interesting and could always downvote later on if they change their mind.