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.
It’s too unpopular for the majority here to resist down voting as they should if they respected the rule. As a French trying to provide a different point or view sometimes, I agree. Not only it’s a vast majority of USA, but also a specific political quarter of it.
Despite what some say here, even motivated minority posters can’t compensate for the crushing statistic, and the total mass is too small to have lively niche communities like on Reddit.
I don’t see any solution for now, apart some really major new fuck ups by Reddit that would trigger a bigger exodus.
I also feel like non-English communities just do their things on their own (feddit.org or jlai.lu are good examples), which increases even further the proportion of US users on the generic English-speaking communities.
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.