Anti-homeless architecture is meant to encourage homeless people to actually go to homeless shelters

Umm no… anti-homeless architecture isn’t meant to encourage people to go to homeless shelters, it’s meant to make it inconvenient to be homeless where “rich people” might have to see and acknowledge you. Its goal is to make the problem easier to ignore not drive people to get help.

We can’t say that. We don’t know what would’ve happened in Canada if Trump lost.

If Trump lost:

• Trudeau might not have resigned
• if he did, Carney might not have became liberal leader
• The election probably wouldn’t have even happened yet, and the campaign likely would’ve been longer when it was.
• Every party would have run very different campaigns since the top issues wouldn’t have been US relations

A lot of things could’ve been different, but most notably:

• PP might not have run a Trump-esk populist attack campaign.

For all we know PP wouldn’t be seen as “the same MAGA threat”

Total monthly posts exploded after Spez enshitified Reddit, and is still growing steadily month over month.

That suggests that the current decline in monthly active users is primarily because lurkers who only came to lemmy after initially hearing about it on Reddit, went back to lurking Reddit.

The number of users that are contributors is still growing, and that’s what’s important.