Try being less of a curmudgeon. A lot of your comments are just expressions of negative sentiment but lacking argument or an alternative perspective that would invite debate or discussion. Also, submitting more news stories will start more conversations.
This very complaint is essentially merely observing that truism, and as such is itself uninteresting and would wind up ignored if it were a comment, or actively downvoted for being whiney and pathetic, complaining about something that was not any kind of mistreatment.
Some of my comments are likewise uninteresting or unpopular, but I don't consider that to be some algorithm designed to suppress me. If I say something jeuvenile or simplistic, it gets no upvotes or even gets downvotes.
But what do I care about that? Why am I here reading other people's comments and leaving my own?
If I have a thought and it gets downvoted, or upvoted, it really means very little either way because if you say anything of any significance or matter at all, then there will be both some people who agree strongly, and some people who disagree strongly, and some of those will hit their up/downvote buttons, but they rarely explain why, and no one ever has to defend their vote with any kind of objectively evaluable argument. Anyone can vote in either direction simply because they are idiots, or because I am the idiot.
So you have to want to trade ideas for their own sake, not because of any validation from popularity.
If this post were a comment I would have probably downvoted it. But in this case, you would know the reason because I explained it above. Observing a truism (uninteresting things garner no interest) is of no interest or value at all, and on top of that complaining that this is somehow some woe upon you that anyone else should care about is just kind of pathetic.
My comment here expressing this criticism is pretty callous and negative, so it will probably be downvoted itself.
AND THAT'S OK.
It's more important to simply have some sort of opinion that is sincere and as well-considered and defensible as you can manage, and express that if you think it's important to be said to add to the conversation, or if you think it's important to see what counter-arguments it might generate which might expand your own understanding and depth.
That said more default sorting options would be nice (with collapsed threads by default)
As anigbrowl pointed out, you could do better by writing better comments. The book "On Writing Well" has helped me a lot on this. There are still things to improve. But English is not my native language, so I don't really worry much about it.
That usually happens when your opinions are generally opposite to the current group-think in that website or sub-group.
You can choose to be the 'voice of reason' * or else you can choose to 'withdraw your services'.
Best we choose to 'withdraw our services'.
* As Heinlein more or less said "Never try to teach your pig to sing, it's a waste of your time. And it annoys the pig."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7287535
My best guess is that if your comments never rank well then it is likely a function of your peers not "up voting" as that seems to be what drives my comment placing.
I'm trying to wean myself off ALL social media such that I can read if I have to but can't/won't comment.