Getting Lemmy(and other fedi services) to fully support linking videos would help. Piefed and and other platforms support it pretty well.

for example: https://piefed.social/post/398574

direct link vs just the url. Lemmy will not work with the direct link like this nor the comments appearing in both instances.

Ads. If I could press a button and inject 30 second ads into videos that would cover the cost of the server, I'd run an instance today and start mirroring a fuckoad of content from YouTube

A good app that feels native

A short video feature that let me browse like tiktok tbh. I know people think short videos are bad but blender tutorials, recipe videos, leftist information are great on tiktok because theyre forced to get straight to the point without fluff like youtube videos that purposely extend the video so you watch more ads.

More content. We need 100% of the Creative Commons videos on YouTube to be mirrored, to start

I mean, if it had invidious' functionality tacked on, i might be swayed to use it. That being said, rip public invidious instances

Import/export subscriptions

@asudox I love the idea of peertube. I have a couple of accounts. It used to be easier to load new content by URL when it supporfted input from YouTube, but YT has gone out of their way to maintain their virtual monoply. In order for such a service to be more useful than just sharing videos with your immediate friends and family you need a way for creaters to make money, which i think is going to be easier on #NOSTR . I think a better question is how do we make nostr useful for more than just bitcoinbois.

• Featured creators on homepage (by admin)
• opt-out federation
• discovery algorithm that doesn't suggest 3 year old videos as "trending"
• A mobile app that works

The ability to post a video to multiple co-authors' channels.