The natural monopoly of networks is what brought us all to social networks, and I suspect it is why they will fail. Niche networks run by a small team (which is what social networks were when we were the early adopters) seem like they can trivially sustain themselves.
The explosion of podcasting is exactly this, but for nontechnical people.
On the desktop version of the website, click on the "Friends" "Feed" (and there might have been a sort by date as well you had to then click on).
You don't get sorting options for that Feed. And depending on your luck that might be three clicks off the home page to even that (See More > Feeds > Friends).
Out of ten items on your feed, five would be adverts, three are reposts of some crappy influencer’s video or a meme or something, one is a friend’s marketplace listing, and if you’re lucky, the last one is a photo actually taken by a friend who you actually know.