Hi @MajorHeadrush
Everyone, at a moment has been ‘new’ to Solid and has tried to understand what it can do better than other products.
I think the first thing to do is to try.
I’ve seen on another post that you have tried to install solid-server and had some problem but it’s not a good point to start.
The first thing is to get a PoD on solid.community, for example
https://solid.inrupt.com/get-a-solid-pod
Have you create a POD?
If not, you can register for one or more.
Then you will want to put some data on it .
In the public folder then can be accessed by everyone, in the private, only by you ( you can share some folder after) .
Start with the ‘public’ folder with some data that is not confidential.
You can store lot of type of data like jpg, png, json, txt, html… But the most important think you have to know is Turtle syntax
and the principle of relationship in Semantic Web.
The default databrowser is sure not friendly but you can do some stuff as described here
https://github.com/solid/userguide/blob/master/README.md or
http://dontai.com/wp/2018/10/01/playing-with-solids-pod-documentation/
Other doc can be found Beginner needs help
Then when you have some data on your pod(s) you can notify some friends, you can also link it to other data stored on someone else POD ( thxs to turtle 
) and propose apps that use those data’s : yours and your friend’s .
I don’t think the aim behind Solid is to absolutely replace Facebook or Chrome, it’s just a way to give you the power to manage your data as you want.
Perhaps is it not what you expected but it is a good start for me and I know it’s more easy to post on Facebook that to create a ttl file…
If you have more questions, let us know 