Anti-Influence Suit — Armor for the Feed

title: Anti-Influence Suit — Armor for the Feed
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tags: attention, productivity, psychology, social

canonical_url: https://vibeaxis.com/the-anti-influence-suit-browse-without-being-modeled/

The feed isn’t content. It’s a centrifuge for your mood.

The Anti-Influence Suit is a 30-second protocol you run once a week. It’s not a “digital detox.” It’s plumbing.

0) Baseline (1 minute)

Take a screenshot of your home feeds (YouTube, TikTok/IG, X/Threads). Label it with today’s date. If your pulse jumps, good—you’ve found the leak.

1) Kill the bait (90 seconds)

• Mute words you compulsively click (celebrity names, outrage bait, your ex’s new hobby).
• Turn off “personalized” notifications. Keep only DMs, calendar, payments, delivery.
• Block the puppeteers who farm you for “engagement” then sell the corpse.

Rule: if it hijacks your Sunday, it doesn’t get Monday.

2) Rewire “recommended” into “requested” (60 seconds)

• YouTube/Spotify: unsubscribe everything you don’t want weekly.
• Home feeds: Follow → Lists (X) / Favorites (IG) / Collections (Threads). Visit lists first; kill home second.

3) Friction layer (30 seconds)

• Add a 1-tap filter: “Today only,” “New uploads only,” or a saved search.
• Put your creation app on the home screen; bury the infinite feeds on page 3.

4) Weekly audit (30 seconds)

• Open last week’s screenshot. Is today noisier? If yes, you got re-trained. Re-fit the suit (mute more words, remove one app’s notifications entirely).

Quick checklist (paste into notes)

[ ] Weekly screenshots saved
[ ] Mute list updated (5+ words)
[ ] Notifications: DMs/calendar only
[ ] Lists/Collections used first
[ ] Re-followed 0; unfollowed 5+
[ ] One app demoted to page 3

What this fixes

• Doomscroll dopamine loops → muted triggers
• Parasocial junk → lists/favorites instead of home
• “Just one more” → friction on infinite feeds
• Decision fatigue → scheduled audit, not willpower

Canonicals / Receipts:

Full breakdown lives here → https://vibeaxis.com/anti-influence-suit/

CLI for fast links:

bash
pip install -U vax-receipts-cli
vax-receipts list
# Windows cranky?  py -m vax_receipts_cli.cli list