It comes from Lemmy's origin as a link aggregator. You can imagine that every link one the web has 0 votes by default. When you submit a post for the first time you are voting for it. You are saying "this is interesting to this community". In this way the submitter is no different than any other voter, each upvote is saying "I think this is interesting" and every downvote is saying "I don't think this is interesting".
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2022
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Your answer is interesting and worth it. (+1) :)
I thought this was a bug. Lol
because that is how it works on reddit, which lemmy is a conceptual descendant of.
why would you want to unvote your post?
The way I see it, on platforms where it's not automatic, it is the culture to not like your own posts, even though everyone would logically want to boost their own opinion. I've seen toxic behavior if people find out someone is doing that. On twitter for example. But when it's automatic, that culture just doesn't exist.
Thank you everyone, and thank you, particularly, @gun. One thing I don't like in today's internet culture is the ad in everything. For example, everyone that makes a video feel it's right to say "give a like, subscribe", taking time of his video and our watching to beg for something that, after all, is not important (and swiping our concentration of the real subject you want to spread to the beg of, what should be secondary, fame or money). So, like when I share a time with someone, I don't want to waste with photos to show everybody else, when I do something in the internet I want it plain, with me begging for something in my interest or boosting the rating of what I do.
With your answer, I now understand that, if it's made automatic (like here), should not exist the culture of thinking about it. I may continue not voting (or unvoting) in myself, for the above reasoning, but now at least I understand. Thanks again you and everyone that took the time (and fun) to answer. (:
I have to manually βunvoteβ my posts.
Do you think you're some sort of white knight or something? No one really cares.
It's a norm. There was a discussion here on Lemmy regarding this some months ago.
I think it's a trivial issue because the sorting algorithm doesn't really care about the upvote, in terms of all posts being on equal footing. This is, of course, assuming people don't un-upvote their posts.
I also think it's trivial in terms of people engaging with the post, because most people will know a single upvote is OPs vote. If they don't know this, the difference between a post with 0 upvotes and 1 is meaningless, especially given that there are no visible downvotes (which you can clearly see on Lemmy). Moreover, the difference between 0 and 1 votes is nothing compared to, say 20 or 400.
In your honor and for the meme, I'll un-upvote this comment.