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An IRC client for Android
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Love how "built in java" is listed as a feature
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.
no way, cool
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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