Regarding the crowdfunding, most of the rewards are ready: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">the PeerTube README</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://joinpeertube.org/hall-of-fame">the JoinPeerTube Hall of Fame</a> show off the names of the persons who have chosen the corresponding rewards. We will soon be able to send the personalized thank-you digital arts to people that gave 80€ (~93 USD) and more (and it's so beautiful that we are looking forward to it!).
Regarding the RSS feeds feature, it was already implemented by Rigelk and you can already use it in the beta 9. You can, for example, get the feed of the last local videos uploaded in a particular instance.
Reports are also sent to moderators of the instance where the reported item (video, account or comment) is hosted. They are displayed in the <i>Administration</i> menu - <i>Moderation</i> tab - <i>Reports</i> page. The new video player on this page makes it easier to accept or reject a report. Moderators can also send messages to local accounts (registered on the same instance) that made reports: they just have to go to the column <i>Messages</i> and click on the little bubble.
Roadmap step 1, the video search on the entire vidiverse is now accessible to everyone. By creating this index engine (a tool to index all videos and channels of predefined PeerTube instances), we are now allowing instances administrators to set the search bar of their instance to search on the entire (or a portion of) the vidiverse.
RSS feeds, allowing you to track new videos published in all federated PeerTube instances, in a specific PeerTube instance or in a video channel you like. You can also subscribe to comment feeds!
The advantage of YouTube (and other platforms) is its video catalog: from knitting tutorials to Minecraft constructions through videos of kittens or holidays... you can find everything!
Setting up a new livestream is like uploading a new video. The default setting will get you one PeerTube URL, one video container (with description and thumbnail and tags...), and one RTMP Key for each of your livestreams. This setting is useful if you want to host multiple lives simultaneously on you channel. When your live is finished, it will be replaced by the replay (if both the instance admin and the content creator have activated this setting).
The federation system, for its part, allows hosts to decide with whom they want to connect, depending on the types of content or the moderation policies of others.