Lytia

I don’t mean to say that running / installing Qubes or Whonix is difficult per se, as a matter of fact I use both on my main machine, rather it’s not very intuitive to set up as, and likely far beyond the threatmodel of, someone brand new to privacy.

That is quite unnecessarily extreme for any threat model. Even if we ignore your bringing of a thermonuclear bomb to this metaphorical fist fight, most social media sites block Tor and require a lot of PII to even begin consuming content, so you’d probably be better off practicing self control and avoiding those sites entirely.