great ideas! we definitely need different trending options because PoB doesn't work currently. The problem I perosnally have with fb sharing is that I don't use fb. So I can't get more views with using external sites. But I think we could make an algorithm that accounts for multiple things like stake, views, reputation?, comments/engagement? etc... I had the idea of "likes" some weeks back that some liked... but I think most don't want to upvote options.
https://peakd.com/hive-102930/@tobetada/introducing-a-like-button-to-hive
Forums and Reddit likely can have much more power than FB... but i don't do a lot of posting there.