I would recommend turning the brightness down to near zero. Combine this with Dark Reader for websites (Firefox) and using a white or grey on black night reader mode in ebook reader apps. At first, the display will appear almost unreadable, but your eyes will quickly adjust.

This makes this platform next to impossible to recommend to users outside of the US, since credit cards are very uncommon in e.g. Europe.

At this point, it works more reliably than playing Youtube videos in a web browser.

Signal does, by the way.

Because most employees can’t just install random software on their machines and because compatibility between Libre Office and Microsoft Office is nowhere near perfect. You don’t want to send your boss a file that ends up looking mangled on their screen.

There is still censorship in many instances. Just because it’s transparent doesn’t change anything about the fact that it’s happening. I doubt more than a small fraction of users even regularly look at the modlog.

BBB (Big Blue Button, for those unfamiliar) seems to be the favorite of lots of institutions in Germany. I think a government agency recommended its use, that’s why it’s so widespread.

The app does remind you of updates.