Esteem mobile Android app: Absurd profile behavior

Project Information

• Repository:
  https://github.com/esteemapp/esteem
• Project Name: Esteem mobile
• Publisher (if applicable): good-karma.

This contribution is a mixture of suggestion and 2 in 1 bug report. More details of my explained can be found here, where I opened the issue on Github

Expected behavior

I could perform a search on esteem mobile. Which is great. I expected that if I searched for my own username, there wouldn't have been a result.
But there was, and I expected that when I clicked on the search result, my profile will open as though I'm owner of that account.

Actual behavior

After clicking on the search result of my username, my profile opened as though I was another user. The implication of this is that I can follow myself and add myself as favorite.
Normally this shouldn't be possible. It isn't though. But I got a notification that I was following myself.
Furthermore, I could add myself as a favorite author. When I refresh the page, that action is cancelled. But if I add as favorite again it works. Then reverts again.
To cut the long explanation short, the number of times I re-add my self as favourite, it registers in the favorites page.

How to reproduce

After the necessary procedures to get into the app;

• Search for your own username on the app or you could try from a comment where you were mentioned.
• If you used search, click on the search result
• You will notice the first error that your profile opens up like your aren't the owner of the account
• You will also notice that the follow button and add author as favorite button are available and clickable.
• Click on the follow button. You should get a notification that you've have followed yourself. Which normally shouldn't be possible.
• Click on the favorites button and check out the favorites page on the app. You'll find yourself added as favorites.
  As explained in the actual behavior segment, if you do this multiple times on your profile, it will appear the number of times you tried it. Which is also abnormal.

Screenshot of the bug.

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Test environment

Device: Redmi note 5 pro
OS: Android 8.1

GitHub Account

https://github.com/HarryHeights

PS: The reason why I didn't include version number in this post is because I tested on an unofficial release of the app.
I was sent to install the app and verify if a bug I reported had been fixed in that update.
However, this issue should still be reproducible in the latest official release.
Here's the link to the version I tested on