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.
Look at the daily posts on !melbourne@aussie.zone. They have several hundreds of comments every day, because the mods of /r/Melbourne supported the migration to Lemmy.
!ich_iel@feddit.org is kind of similar in that space, they had an official post to move to feddit a year ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/ich_iel/comments/14d65o7/öffentliche_dienstmeldung_änderung_der/
Meanwhile the mods of /r/France just removed every post mentioning Jlai.lu as it was “a social network”.
Shaking my head.