For me, it was not being able to use a 3rd party app. Accessing reddit through their garbage app is a painful experience. And unless I find the answer to a question via web search that's a reddit thread, I avoid it entirely.

At best it is a technical forum for me. I have an account I've used since the days of the great digg migration. A lot of communities grew and became fun but most are now either dead or crap.

I only use Reddit for one small niche hobby. And given that a bunch of those people still use Facebook, I'm not that surprised they haven't relocated to Lemmy.

I left reddit a few months ago, and still check the site from time to time for things like movie site recommendations, music recs, etc. It still feels the same to me.

I only use it for /r/nfl now, that community is great at creating memes and posting highlights as soon as it happens and I still visit a few niche subreddits but they too got even smaller, probably a lot of us switched to just lurking instead of actively participating

My country's sub got taken by a pro-government group, I used it to see the news and know what was happening there but now you can't find any news that criticize the government or that show the country in a bad manner. We had a meme sub and that was taken over too so it became trash

as if it lost its* spark.

Yes of course there is still content there you can't get anywhere there else especially historical stuff but ya I hate Reddit because it used to be good. Lemmy is a much better place to hang out