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I think the best UIs to gain inspiration from nowadays, aren't on the web, but smartphone apps. There's a ton of variety and ways to display social-networks. And in the case of reddit, the app UIs are better than the site itself.
I made jerboa taking inspiration from boost, a really clean reddit client. But you could take any app UI, and create a web UI using it as inspiration.
Someday I would like to see a website with an oval, rather than a rectangular web design. No particular practical reason I can think of other than it would be really cool. The html/css would be difficult, might have to use svgs.
I think the main problem is that screens tend to be rectangular than oblong.
The real problem is that html is basically just rectangles nested within rectangles.
Another one: you could easily make lemmy into a facebook / conventional social network type interface. You could even make the comment feed the primary view, rather than posts.
I was thinking of a frontend to turn Lemmy into a blogging software. I think the backend has all the required functionality. An image gallery could also be good, like scrolller.com.
Is it worth it? I think there are many solutions for federated blogging.
I thinks it's better to focus on lemmy itself as a reddit alternative as it's the only one (or almost) in the scene.