What are the biggest mistakes new indie authors make on Instagram? (Grok Diary – Day 241)

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Overpromotion won’t be an issue for me. I’m still hesitant on creating more than just a weekly book cover post on the platform. But Reels are a big one. I’m simply not at the point where I can produce content like that – time, resources, and my ability to be in front of a camera are limited currently.

So far, Grok hasn’t convinced me that Instagram should be more than a supplement platform for everything that I do elsewhere. I guess I’ll stick to the basic setup and posting my covers until I can find some audience (if that ever happens) aside Instagram.

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I Give Up, For Now – Comments Are Closed Again

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The amount of spam flooding my website has once again increased. I have to spend more and more time filtering out genuine comments, and as AI-generated nonsense becomes increasingly convincing, scammers are using ever more sophisticated bot comments to sneak their links onto websites.

Comments on my website are therefore closed again for the foreseeable future. I apologize to everyone who wants to leave a genuine comment, ask a question, or simply reach out. I’d love to engage with you on my website, but the amount of spam has become unmanageable.

My website is small, I don’t make any money from it, and I simply can’t afford another monthly bill for a costly spam filter or comment management team. For now, the only solution I can think of is to close the comments.

If I ever reach the point where I’m a real author selling a decent number of books and building a great community, I’ll use the money from book sales to pay for a solution that filters out 99% of the spam without stealing so much of my time.

But I haven’t reached that point yet. Maybe I never will.

Until then, I’m tired of the scammers. I’m disillusioned by the endless stream of spam comments. I’ve simply had enough. I give up.

Comments are closed.