Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Why I Don’t Reply on Instagram: Defining Your Real Community #substack #shorts

18 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Short spoken reflection by Phil Powis about managing community engagement: the speaker explains they choose not to reply to Instagram comments due to limited time and emotional capacity, preferring to engage with their community on Substack where they will reply to comments and DMs. The piece emphasizes that creators may choose which platforms host their community rather than feeling obligated to respond everywhere.

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I think that there's a lot of like, you know, people do talk about communities and my, my business is very community focused. But your business doesn't have to be if that's not how you. How you are. Because one thing like this is going to sound awful and I probably shouldn't admit it, but I don't reply to Instagram comments. I just can't Like I just don't have the capacity for it. Like I cannot do was taken hours and hours and hours of my day and I was like, oh God, I feel like I'm just giving everything to this platform. Like if someone DMs me, of course I'll reply like I read them all, but I don't just don't have the capacity to reply to them all. And that's like my and I know that that's like goes counter to so many pieces of advice because people are like, you have to reply to everyone that and it's. But you get to choose where your community is. Like my community exists on substack, so if you comment on substack I will 100% comment back. That's where I choose to have my community.