We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to https://a.lemmy.world and have a look!
He continues to update it constantly, you can follow the development on his github page or in his community. If you like what you see and want to support him, why not buy him a coffee? :)
For those who don’t have Lemmy World as their home instance and want to use Alexandrite, either ask your instance admins to add it or go to https://alexandrite.app!
Edit: I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!
It definitely functions well on both, I don’t mean to suggest that it’s meant for mobile. But yeah, I think it’s mostly the fact that all the content is only on the center 1/3 of my screen. To me, that just feels a lot like a mobile view compared to something that uses the whole area of the browser.
A lot of social sites on the modern web look this way now, and generally it’s a result of them trying to prioritize mobile uses first, so when I see it anywhere now it’s just a “oh, this is a mobile site” in my mind.
An option was added to make everything span the whole screen, although it isn’t very well optimized.
Try it now, I’ve made the design much better for desktop.