Thanks for the timely work! I'm not sure if it's the same issue, but arriving on the beehaw.org/c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml for me shows the community, but this is what it displays on the side:
I think the amount of users speak for itself. Also, no upvotes or comments are apparent in any post. I hope this helps.
The benefit using Linux Mint (at least what I have seen) is that multimedia codecs are optional on install, which is totally fine in my opinion.