Not just Europeans. I was talking to my roommate about how I deleted my Reddit accounts and fully committed to switching over to Lemmy, and his main concern was which instances were hosted in America so he could avoid them.

I used to use Kbin.social but eventually it started to get overrun by spam when the servers worked.

It depends on the book. I think it works better with horror or books that are focused on music to have a playlist in the background.