[JCharante]

Unironically WeChat's moments are probably what you're looking for.

- They don't embed ads in moments.

- It's a chronological feed. And you only see posts from your friends (who you allow to view moments).

- You can set the expiration time of your moments (so no one can see anything older than 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 day (I think?), And keep them visible forever if you want.

- You can only view comments from your friends. Your friends will not see your comment if they aren't friends with the poster whose moment you replied to. And your friend's friends won't see the comment unless they're friends with you. This keeps things personal and avoids flamewars between randoms.

Anyways, I personally like to use Strava to keep up with my active friends. You get to see them as they go on vacations and when they've gotten vaccinated based off an easy ride (and in the title). I use it to just peer into the lives of friends as they've moved to different countries and continents.

[djz2k]

wrt WeChat, no longer entirely true. - Moments does embed ads, but far less than western social networks - It's no longer pure chronological, you only see posts from people who allow you to view their moments. - You can't set expiration time for individual moments posts, you set expiration time on your moments feed. It goes as low as 3 days (not 1). - The comments visibility can be odd as you often only see one side of a conversation.

They have a ton of powerful privacy features, but the issue w/ them and most, is that they're all off (i.e. public) by default.