Their response is to ban people who disagree instead of maybe considering that AI slop communities are terrible and nobody wants them.

Clearly if someone made that community, then at least someone wants them. I imagine there's some others that do want them.

You know, like how a MAGA community being down voted should maybe consider the crap they are posting isn’t wanted.

I mean, MAGA communities also get banned for conduct - but assuming they didn't, it would also make sense for the owners and moderators to ban downvoters too.

Yes, I am saying that AI slop communities are a comparable detriment to the fediverse in the same way as having a hate group community. Not an equivalent, but also bad and the large number of down votes should be a sign they are not wanted.

And people can solve it by blocking those communities. So what's the problem?

For example, there are a number of very specific AI communities like AI witches and AI mushrooms and AI cats with orange hair or some other overly specific topic and blocking a bunch of those is way more tedious than a couple communities. The low quality and volume of it is just spam nobody wants, and we should absolutely down vote spam.

Then they'll ban you.

And you can't stop them from banning you. So what's the problem?