When I visit kbin.social, I see new posts regularly. On other servers posts stay on the frontpage for multiple days. This is also true if I switch their sorting to “hot”. So that is probably not the difference.
What is kbin.social doing differently?
Yep, I posted a link on Lemmy earlier today and it started at 1 with an upvote from myself immediately after submitting.
I think Kbin should auto-upvote too (as did almost everyone in the poll last I saw it), if not else then for feature parity.