Unpopular opinion:
IPv6 is a shitcoin.
It's just about 'printing' more IP addresses, trying to break out a scarcity space.
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Discussion
IP address is not a collectible but necessity for networking. IPv6 already has 50% adoption in last 25 years.
Nothing you said is false.
But I'm old enough to remember how IPv6 was sold 25 years ago: as something inevitable to address the biggest flaw of IPv4, needed to support Internet's growth.
But more than two decades later we have witnessed that the internet is perfectly capable of working properly with IPv4, scaling up to a level that no one was imaging then.
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IPv6 is great. Both clearnet IPv6 and Yggdrasil IPv6
? IPs are for addressing. Not fucking investing.
IPv6 has link-local which is such a pleasure and means greater reachability.
- True, and that makes IPv4 a shitcoin too.
- Greater reachability is bad for privacy, and not enough for connectivity.
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