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I don't have to make a new account then?
Nope. Although I will say if you do have a Mastodon account, I find that experience a little nicer. Specifically the ability to put my channels into lists. Hoping to see a multi-reddit type grouping system on Lemmy in the future.
See FediFollow's recent post for more folks to subscribe to (not these links are mostly for users while on Lemmy you have to subscribe to the subchannels).
How do I find YouTubers?
Most YouTubers won't switch as they are generally in the business for monetization purposes. Early experiments in monetization have been done on PeerTube but nothing significant enough to be competitive. It does have first-class support for donation links but that's pretty much the bare minimum at this point.
Several of them are in the tilvids instance