The current default “Homepage” value is “All”. That makes sense for users with zero subscribed magazines, so they see something.
But for users with one or more subscribed magazines, the default value for “Homepage” needs to be “Subscriptions”.
That’s partially just because subscriptions mean little if the default frontpage ignores them. But there’s a more important reason than that.
The current situation is that posts in m/Conservative are heavily downvoted, and barely upvoted. (Whatever your politics may be, consider if this was happening to you.) As more ex-redditors join, this problem is likely to worsen.
Eventually moderators need better controls, to say things like “Only members can vote”, etc.
But for now, a very easy fix is to change the default value of “Homepage” to be “Subscriptions”. Of course, “All” should still be a selectable option for those who prefer it.
The whole point of a voting system is to do exactly what your trying to stop. If you don’t want people to vote on your posts maybe you should find a platform that doesn’t use a voting system.
It’s impolite to vote unless you’re a member of the community. And by “impolite”, I mean it’s extremely rude. Members of the community have free reign to vote as they see fit. The result is the community’s content is weighted according to its own values.
I think gimping and entire platform of discussion so you can build an echo chamber is foolish. I get you don’t want to interact with the rest of the platform because your content is unpopular but I’d rather promote free interaction than pander to unpopular communities.