Hot is basically just “active” but based on upvotes, and the people in c/memes think that giving upvotes completely randomly is good for lemmy
How much experience did you have with Rust when you started making Lemmy? What programming languages did you use before?
The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out
FYI most of those have official urls.
Alexandrite: https://alexandrite.app
Photon: https://phtn.app
Voyager: https://vger.app