Yea, the download size was getting too big (or they couldn't be bothered QA-ing new gear with old content) so they started deleting old stuff.

Means if you start playing now you can't play the story from the beginning which seems pretty terrible to me.

Could instances not basically do that here too though?

Does karma actually effect your account on reddit?

The more users the more content there is though which is ultimately what I want as a user.

This is even more important for more niche communities a lot of which are still very quiet/dead/non-existent on Lemmy relative to reddit.