Whenever I post or comment (collectively, “post”), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0.

Now I’ve seen fresh posts with +0/-0, so not even the user itself is upvoting.

I don’t really care that much about votes, but I’m curious. Is this the user removing their own upvote, a client feature, some server feature, or some other reason?

Thank you in advance.

Edit: typos

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    I’ve seen that and my best guess has always been the initial/self upvote got “lost in the mail” during federation. AFAIK, the post creation and the initial upvote are separate activities that need to federate. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

    If your instance is resolving a post manually that it doesn’t already know about (and it it’s not coming in from being subscribed) then it will not get the initial upvote, but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to here.