An underappreciated benefit of bot accounts, like @hourlywolves, is the hourly markers they provide while scrolling through your timeline. Another wolf photo? You've scrolled back one more hour.
I find this metronomic quality quite comforting, partly because their photos let me associate what I'm seeing in my timeline to how time is passing/has passed the real world.
Here's.some anecdotal evidence..
¹ Check your 🆓🐦 feed.
² Compare the #refreshrate of the #algorithmictimeline 🐦💨 vs. #chronologicaltimeline 🐘💨
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This needs a new #anecdotalpoll!
Now that you're used to a chronological feed of posts here, the best way of browsing #instagram is by using the #following feed.
All the photos from your followers, and there's a bonus. NO ADVERTS!
For more details, here's my blog post about this.
https://odd.blog/2022/07/28/the-best-way-to-browse-instagram/