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Not for me I think. On desktop, seems to be much like Tesseract but a little less busy. Alexandrite is just about tolerable and the default frontend is acceptable with dark theming. Newer frontends seem to focus more on big images and spoon-feeding posts bit by bit in a scrolly, algo-friendly manner. I'm more of a reader, so lots of scrolling for comparatively little output won't ever get along with me. It's like having a restaurant menu read out to you at the table dish by dish, instead of just simply being given the menu to pick from.
Can't comment for mobile, as a dedicated app will beat any web based frontend. There's just no use case in a mobile frontend for me.
Favourite will always be mlmym; hoping it continues to be maintained in forks as it seems to be mostly abandoned by the original author. It puts the most info in the space available, while remaining spartan and uncluttered.
Alternatives are always good though, even when they don't fit personal preference. I can see how others who have settled on the newer frontends up until now might appreciate Blorp a lot. I realise I am old, grumpy & in the minority on this one.
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I settled on Photon (https://m.lemmy.zip/) for the time being as it has enough configuration options to tailor the experience and their compact mode is great.