The Lemmy web frontend is terrible (on desktop, at least). I have to click on every single image for it to load and it’s just generally ugly. Any good alternative frontends would be greatly appreciated. I checked some of them and they are either not loading or as bad as the original one.
Some of the alt UIs mentioned in this thread can be test-driven on lemmy.world:
And as others have said, once you find one you like you can self-host it and use it with any instance you prefer.