at the potential cost of future community

Also important to note that while there may be some cost to community from growth, you get more people with diverse interests, so the niche communities benefit greatly

Apparently the ratings are location specific

Really hoping they can get the version incompatibility and stability issues worked out. Most users are going to want to use a mobile app they can just get on the play store/app store and currently Jerboa is still experiencing a lot of crashes and weird glitchiness. I tried Thunder too, but it also crashes randomly, but at least it lets you log into whatever instance you want, unlike Jerboa 0.0.35+