You are supposed to be born in the US to relate (or enjoy) to Lemmy content.

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.

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As an American who is undoubtedly contributing to the US-centric tone, I encourage you to post more non-US content. Especially from your particular corner of the globe. It's nice to see things from other parts of the world!
- Yes please, more of this. I would really like to hear something other than what is going on in the US (and Canada). Good or bad, my only issue is I wish lemmy had some kind of translator. North American sad and mad with the world!
- The problem is that the US people aren't interested in outside things. It quickly gets buried and forgotten. They don't bother for other places, or other cultures. And where should I post the non-US stuff?

Don't take this the wrong way but that's the internet. Unless you're on a country specific page or a country specific forum, the USians are going to dominate, here and anywhere else. There really isn't much anyone can do about it.
- Das stimmt fei ned. Wir deutschen übernehmen gerne, sobald wir können ;)
  
  Ja gut, Anschluss bestätigt die Regel.
- There are 330,000,000 million of us and we all have internet. More populous countries, like India and China, have languages and alphabets so far removed from English that the vast majority of us can't begin to read them.
  So yeah, I would expect American posts to dominate most of the Western world's online activity.
  
  330,000,000 million
  citation needed ;)

Really? Did I miss that in the rules some where?
"Be the change you want to see".
Funny, the top posts in the Scotland community are about Scotland, because the bulk of people posting there are interested in posting about Scotland.
What you're acknowledging is that the largest plurality of posters on Lemmy post things about the US. That's all.
You're also functioning from an external locus of control rather than an internal locus of control. That leads to nowhere but dissatisfaction.
All that said, I'd like to see a greater variety of posts, but it is what it is, and I'm uninterested in putting forth the effort to gather interesting stories from around the world.
- I am not asking people to pick up stories from around the world. I'm tired of the lack of interest about other places, and how they make the entire world revolve about US problems.

!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 )
- Oh, yay. The vote is heavily toward making the "no US politics" rule permanent. As an American, I am happy to see that. I'm so sick of [our] politics everywhere, so I can't imagine the rest of the world being any less sick of it.
  
  Yes, the vote is quite clear

Is my opinion popular or impopular? Read the sidebar, and respectfully discuss your ideas instead of hiding cowardly.
- 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.

- Interessante. Mas como eu chego a mencionar o Brasil de uma forma forçada? Considerando que não me considero muito esperto em sociopolítica e não gosto das postagens sobre política?

True, the biggest factor is language, a Lemmy in Arabic or Chinese would be completely. An analogous example is comparing YouTube to Bilibili (Chinese YouTube), two different worlds and I've only found one "YouTube like" reaction channel on BiliBili.

I can relate to this. But being federated, there are some local instances (not communities) which will have content you can relate to. For example, there was a kerala.party instance (which later mysteriously disappeared from the web) which had lots of memes I could relate to. Maybe you can find an instance with stuff you enjoy: https://join-lemmy.org/instances and https://lemmyverse.net
EDIT: added lemmyverse link

Be consoled. Soon it won't be among the first world countries anymore.

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