Highlighting personal experiences with rampant censorship on major platforms, the article advocates for the adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) as alternatives, emphasizing the importance of open dialogue in digital communities.
Seems like a fresh mirror here https://gitea.eponym.info/Mirrors/youtube-dl to fork and start it over somewhere else. Gitea is a great project. Now we need someone to fork and publish it over Tor or something. Decentralized solution would be a next step.
Diff between that mirror and the one from the web.archive.com looks good. I.e. no hidden/evil things inside. Looks safe to start over.