I’m the developer of a desktop-first Lemmy client called Alexandrite.
(I’m the dev of Alexandrite) Officially there isn’t yet a way to self-host it without modifying the code (unless you host it on one of a few specific cloud providers like the official Alexandrite site does), but now that people are self hosting anyway I think adding support for it is going to be higher up on my priority list!
I never had considered before a few days ago that someone would host Alexandrite alongside their instance so it never occurred to me that someone might first interact with Lemmy through Alexandrite. I will definitely add registration!
Alexandrite has a typo in the name! (I’m the creator btw)
Or find and replace all the periods with ones that are slightly larger font.