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[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can anyone enlighten me: What is the advantage of IRC over say Matrix, Email, etc...

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

~~Small correction, matrix does not support voice and video, but clients like element use jitsi meet to support both.~~

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Wrong, it actually supports voice and video now, althouh it has only been implemented in element

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

From what I understand, the newest version of Element X paired with Matrix 2.0 will now support voice/video without using jitsi.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago
[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Very low bandwidth or resource usage would be some advantages, less so since they made in this java heh.