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There's no algorithm to speak of in Lemmy. It's just all sorted by date and shown to you (which, technically speaking, is also an algorithm). In the next version (0.19) there will be, though.
Hot, Active and Top are algorithms.
It's also not what lay-people mean when they say "algorithm" in context of social media, which you can easily infer from the OP's question. That's why I replied as such and specified that even sorting by date is indeed an algorithm.
I'm replying to the question being asked, you're replying with "akchually".
I don't think it's a good idea to try to redefine what "algorithm" means in the context of social media. Hot and top are sorting algorithms, so are the personalized feeds other websites try to present to you. Saying "hot" is not an algorithm because that's not what people "mean" is just going to cause confusion.