Someone just put out a post addressing activity on Steem the other day.
It showed Steem's activity is way down and dropped it's ranking significantly. From 6 to almost 40, I think.
That being said, most of the whales and highly active dolphins left, so this accounts for that. You might get near the same amount of votes on Steem, but most will be worth less.
As for activity in Hive. I'm actually getting better interaction over there. I posted the same post on both. In hive I received double the votes, 300% higher earnings and 1000% more comments.
The reason votes are low on Hive is because there are no autovoting apps there, so it's all done manually.
Steemauto is down today to add support to Hive, which will cause the votes to skyrocket.😀
I look at activity by the number of posts per minute, no complicated algorithms just count the posts per minute, Steemit is just a little down from where it was a month ago. Take into account that Steemit's activity was down since hard fork 21. As for Hive it is good you are getting so much more interaction, for my part I am not getting much.