Works on my side too. I mean I did not noticed anything on my PeerTube instance.

As I know only land line numbers works and prepaid ones won't do trick.

How bad gamechat is region locked?

In my case I finished Pokemon Violet and now moved to Arceus, also as side games I play Mario Kart World, Animal Crossing NH and some Splatoon 3.

BookLore looks promising but would love if they would have option to add Physical books so both are on same page :)

The link for example plugin gives me broken github link :)

In my case I use https://www.bunkerweb.io/ as my proxy for that, but there are other tools like for example https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Nope. There is none as I'm aware off.