App to torrent swarm Youtube videos and opportunistically do yt-dlp in parallel (slrpnk.net)

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Youtube has become hostile toward the Invidious community and also direct users over Tor. At the same time, YT is no longer purely some entertainment platform cat video frills. Governments and public schools are putting public content on YT that everyone should be entitled to access.

Google’s attack on Invideous involves targetting public servers. But Google cannot block everyone. So we need a killer FOSS p2p app that combines torrenting with conventional fetching. It has to be good enough that quasi normies are willing to run it.

The app should find, leech, and seed a torrent based on the video ID. At the same time it should do a parallel fetch using yt-dlp. If blocked by Google, the user can still get fed by the torrent. It only takes one unblocked user to seed the torrent.

Ideally the trackers are onion based. Perhaps to go easy on the network, the onion torrenting should be limited to low-res open format variants.

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This is a place to ask whether free open source software exists for a particular purpose. If it’s non-existent, specify your software requirements here so your dream can be well articulated for everyone to either laugh at or share the dream and give moral support for you to create it yourself. Or you might even to pitch the idea so well that a developer loves the idea enough to run off and build it for you.

No other community exists for this purpose but there are some loosely related ones. If existing software closely delivers what you need but is missing a feature, you might post a wishlist/feature request here or in !bugs@sopuli.xyz.

The FSF has a software directory that can help with finding software.

Loosely related decentralised communities generally for FOSS:

There is also foss@beehaw.org but I don’t recommend it because the mod is trigger happy with censorship. E.g. if you post about FOSS advocacy it will get removed as it does not relate to any particular FOSS application. There are also many more FOSS forums duplicated in centralised places which are not conducive to the digital rights spirit of free open source software, so they are omitted.

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