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Try AntiX, but don't expect magic, especially when it comes to browsing the modern web.
AntiX runs quite well on my late 90s PC, and it's just a Debian-based distro that still uses the Debian repos, but is optimized for extremely low spec PCs.
The modern web, especially with all of its JS and more modern video codecs, will be quite the struggle to run. YouTube still has support for h264 streams, so you can try downloading the video and using a local video player to play it, if you can get the h264 stream and your hardware has hardware decoding support. Not sure what codecs Peertube uses.
https://antixlinux.com/