Certainly the algorithm on all these Hive frontends is absolutely terrible. Rather than surfacing anything interesting, it just always shows off the exact same people. Which creates the game where people try to get more and more autovotes not only for the money but also so that they will show up in the trending algorithm. If we want to fix Hive, the algorithm would be a great place to start.
Yeah, it's probably be difficult to get all of Hive indexed by Google. But that said, there still are a lot of good posts on Hive that should be indexed. I'd rather read a personal blog post here any day than one of the annoying SEO list posts from Medium ("Ten reasons why your posts suck and how to fix it" or "How I made 10 Gajillion dollars from my Writing in 2 Weeks") that Google has indexed.
I honestly didn't know about the existence of this algorithm that Hive has, or at least I overlooked it at the beginning of my comment since I didn't remember it well as such. The fact that your feed depends on certain requirements other than your own actual interaction as a user is something that, personally, I don't like very much. As you say, it's always the same ones who end up trending, while many good creators are forgotten along with their content due to a lack of votes and virality. I read there that they were working on a new algorithm, let's hope it's what's so needed here.
I mention indexing and SEO as an example that, no matter how much effort one puts into making a good post, in the end it only gets a few dozen views and that's it. There is a lack of tools or ways to bring more traffic organically to Hive.