IWhen a friend has shared a video, they try to get you to sign up with this horrible collection of "similar reccomended" content (90% sexually suggestive thumbnails other 10% really dumb clickbait) every time. If for that reason alone I will never join and have my brain rotted by their algorithms.

I used to download stuff, back in the day, when it was actually a commitment due to the lack of high speed last-mile and lack of Torrent. Eventually, the experience of obtaining things interactively made it sane to only download things from academic sites, which tend to serve the public "not as well as you'd hope", except ACM.

But the fact is that as far as TikTok goes, saving to the PC would be a (poor) way of overcoming the lack (as far as I can tell) of ways to organize what one encounters in such a way that one could practically find one's way to it in the future.

Such a worn out joke :)

The platform is essentially short form youtube, there’s content covering virtually every interest/topic.