I do also feel like it is more jittery (android 13, jerboa 0.0.35)

I also sometimes experience that issue, check in developer console if you don't have errors with websocket connections. Not sure what causing that (my side/server side), but most of the time CTRL+F5 (refresh with clearing cache) fixes the issue

I'm not new to fediverse, but i found the same friction points like with mastodon

• which instance to pick (or maybe i should host my own straight away?)
• how to discover new communities - browse.feddit.de definietly helps with that
• links that redirects me to another instance