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.
I think it’s good to have them doing their own things, but it is just not big enough to be as entertaining and wide-covering as Reddit. j’ai.lu feels more like a forum with 50 active members that you would check once a week.