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Many of the smaller to medium size subs have either been abandoned by their mods, set to restricted, or have just lost a lot of their most active users. There's a very noticeable drop in engagement, for example posts that would've once gotten 1k or 2k upvotes within a few hours are now pushing like 600-800.
The quality of posts and especially comments has gone down the shitter, way more comments from trolls or low IQ types looking to pick a fight. It's not like Reddit is dying per se but you can just tell something is missing. I think it's a mixed effect of many mods getting removed or resigning + many 3PA users moving to Lemmy + Reddit's dogshit mobile app messing with stuff because it uses some shitty algorithm instead of just letting users sort by Hot.
You also have to remember that the only good UI left on Reddit at this point is old reddit with RES, but even that isn't the best for just casually browsing memes and video related subs. For me it's basically a Digg 4.0 situation where there may be content I'd like to see but it just isn't worth crawling through that shit pipe that is the official app.