Most of the posts that are frequently featured in the homepage are about social problems or styles of life common to that country (or most first world countries), and even limit to only United-Statesian media discussion. They do not appeal to someone like me, who has different thoughts, different people, different problems. It’s hard to find something relatable in (most) non-local communities, because it’s just about this style of culture. It doesn’t helps with the poor website discorverability, making me limited to these same repetitive and unfunny posts.
!AskUSA@discuss.online now exists to have a space for USA discussions
On the other hand, !asklemmy@lemmy.world has a vote to make the “no US politics rule” permanent
Feddit.org, feddit.uk and other languages and countries based instance are quite active (see the sidebar of !yurop@lemm.ee )