I would imagine they’re more concerned with Australia than America, since that’s where they live.

This wasn’t America this time. Blame the Aussies.

Plus they don’t see ad revenue, so there’s no profit incentive to keep bots around acting as if they’re real traffic. If anything, Lemmy instances are disincentivized from allowing bot traffic because it means more traffic than necessary, which costs them bandwidth.

Speechify is probably the best option for this particular usecase.