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You can link to videos if you want. I don't think that lemmy or kbin instances will likely provide free hosting for them, though.
There is a Fediverse service that provides video hosting, PeerTube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
I'm skeptical that it will scale -- it costs to host video -- but it's there. You can host something on any PeerTube host willing to serve your content and link to it from the Threadiverse, same as you could on YouTube.
https://joinpeertube.org/
EDIT: For a list of nearby instances:
https://peertube.fediverse.observer/
I would like to add that we are talking primarily about the ability to insert a direct link with a video located on a third-party service. To do this, you need to display previews/thumbnails, which are not available now.
I may be wrong, but I don't think it will require a lot of additional resources.