I still dofollow sites I link to within a post. I have no problem with that. In fact, now that I've done this, I'm sending more authority to those links than I did before.
The issue was having a ton of links in the navigation in my site that was appearing on every single page. Many of those were big sites or directories which I had no desire to send link juice to.
Because of the problems I've been having with Flickr images getting on Google Image search, I've stopped sending all link juice to Flickr. Also, they are nofollowing links from their site, so I see no reason why I shouldn't do the same to them.
Wikipedia is the same thing. They put nofollow on every external link, so I have no problem doing the same in kind.
I found a tiny plugin that nofollowed very Wikipedia link and modified it to work with Flickr.
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