Comment by iamben

Devil's advocate after 10 seconds of thought. Is this _really_ a bad thing for the users? I mean, you don't have to follow accounts you don't enjoy following. Just black and yellow squares? Don't follow it. If you enjoy the content, does it matter if the account is run by bots? Even on the explore page, Instagram seems to do fairly well with showing you pictures of things you like - I see a ton of cats, burgers and watches. I don't really care if the accounts are run by bots... They're just pretty pictures. As for my feed, it's my friends or people I've chosen to follow. Whether they're posting themselves or via a cron job on a raspberry pi, I don't really care. If I did, I'd unfollow.