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.