The front end doesn't matter as long as the tag is used and the person voting has stake. The palnet.io front end is a great way to find other people that are using the same tag/protocol for voting and curating, as with palnet, we specifically made curation more worthwhile so that people don't feel they have to make content. I would say just think of palnet as a second layer running over the steem you already use that only applies to posts with the tag. Essentially it's what SMTs were supposed to be.