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.

Exactly. I’m a millennial and this is absolute bullshit. Gen Z has it way worse than we did at that age, and we already had it rough.

Speechify is probably the best option for this particular usecase.

The C-suite, board and stakeholders are draining the system dry in for profit prisons? Color me shocked! 😱

If you think asylums aren’t for incarceration, you’ve clearly never been to one.