Magistrate Sandra De Maio sentenced Dong to nine months in prison and fined him $5,000 for breaching orders.

The RSPCA had estimated Dong could have made $1.17 million from puppy sales.

He made more money than he lost. He and like-minded others will learn nothing from this sentence

Will this do anything?

And there is a last reason, which is less rigorous but matters to us just as much. We write software because we enjoy writing software […] We are not interested in optimizing away the reason we do this.

The two design changes below would let users get those answers from the platform itself

Post-event explanations on the platform […] When an account is suspended, defederated or labeled, the affected user could receive a short structured note from the platform: what happened, who took the action, which rule was cited and how to appeal.

Agreed. This should be high priority.

Clearer scope and undo for lists. Bluesky users describe list subscriptions as one-way and as automatically applying future additions. The protocol allows undoing them, so the gap is in the app’s interface. A clear “unsubscribe and undo all the blocks this list caused” control, plus a visible count of how many people are subscribed and how often a list is updated, would make the spread of blocks easier to understand without changing the underlying mechanism.

Our claims are […] about fediverse-engaged Redditors, not federated-platform users at large

I can see this passing under the guise of fixing medical conditions