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carrylex Jun 9, 2024

Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?

Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? - Lemmy.World

Context: People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years [https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539] (probably a decade by now) … and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/ [https://isgithubipv6.live/]

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GTG3000 Jun 10, 2024

“Everyone is using IPv6”

It’s barely supported. Most providers here “offer IPv6”, but each has a different gotcha to actually using it, if it works at all and they didn’t just route you through hardware that doesn’t know what it is.

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flying_sheep Jun 10, 2024

What’s “here”? Here in Germany, mine has it for maybe 10 years or so. Basically since launch day.

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Muddybulldog

While you may have IPv6 it doesn’t do anything if the services you utilize don’t support it.

MANY major websites and domains have no IPv6 support. whynoipv6.com

Why No IPv6? The World's Largest Websites Lacking IPv6 Support

The IPv4 exhaustion is becoming a real problem for the internet, "Why No IPv6?" is a who's who of the world's biggest websites globally and by country, still not migrated to IPv6.