TikTok

 TikTok  is a video sharing app where users create and share short videos, often set to music.

How to use

 * https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-tik-tok/

How to export
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How to delete content
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How to delete account
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Use their API
TikTok's only open API developer products are limited: SSO (ie "log in with TikTok"), web embedding, share buttons for web and mobile, and webhooks for a few event types, notably video uploads.

There's also a Business API (docs), which is much more full featured, but seems to require a business/ads account. That looks free and self serve, but they also have an API approval process, which looks like it includes human moderation.

There's a robust scraping community, and even at least one mature-looking company with a commercial service, TikAPI.

IndieWeb Examples
None yet...?

Tools

 * tiktok-mf2.tanna.dev (announcement): 's service that scrapes video posts and converts them to microformats2. Source.

Unequal & exploitative revenue share
TikTok uses a region-locked "creator fund", a set pool of money that is distributed amongst popular accounts and viral videos. This creates a system where creators end up being paid less individually the more people use (and succeed) on the platform, and massively reduces the share of revenue reaching creators compared to other platforms, like Youtube.

Handles personal data non-transparently (and possibly illegally)

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A Reddit user reverse engineered the app and described the information it collects: