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An IRC client for Android
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this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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Can anyone enlighten me: What is the advantage of IRC over say Matrix, Email, etc...
Email is message exchange with a person or group of people. They can reply at any time.
IRC is a chatroom. You go to it when you want to chat. A lot of software have support channels. You probably don't know most of these people. Unless you are saving them somehow, you don't have a history of the chat room.
I've never used Matrix but it's a instant messaging protocol that allows voice and video.
~~Small correction, matrix does not support voice and video, but clients like element use jitsi meet to support both.~~
Wrong, it actually supports voice and video now, althouh it has only been implemented in element
From what I understand, the newest version of Element X paired with Matrix 2.0 will now support voice/video without using jitsi.
Thank you.
Very low bandwidth or resource usage would be some advantages, less so since they made in this java heh.