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Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting (hccf.onmy.cloud)
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[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t even say it was a good idea. Like the end to end NAT free internet is the ideal. IPv6 was built for that.

Even if IPv8 was not slop it would reenforce the idea of nat and hierarchy.

IPv6 allows for a democratized internet where anyone can choose to self host. And anyone can connect to anyone who is self hosting.

Because of this it’s a bit more complicated. But ideology it much better than IPv8. It brings us back what made the internet great in the 90s and 2000s, but at scale.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

I really like how ipv6 works; the downside is it's way more complicated for humans to understand. But then again all of networking gets complicated fast. I still don't really get what a CGNAT is.

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Probably true...but I just don't see it taking off...

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

IPv6 is now peaking over 50% of all internet traffic globally and trending up. IPv4 is today the minority of internet traffic.

In some countries like France IPv6 over 85% of all internet traffic. In Germany over 75%. USA 57% of all traffic. India 76% of all traffic.

Not a fan of Google but they keep statistics on adoption.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I literally just got the notifiation from Verizon today that IPV6 was now supported by their network... Ubiquiti asked me if I wanted to enable it, my response is basically not until I understand it...

Then again, it took me 20 years to really understand IPv4, so it's likely I'm going to be decaying before I get v6. ;-)

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Have faith in yourself. I bet you could get things in a few hours with focused study if you have a deep understanding of IPv4.

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

LOL....my ADHD has gotten much worse with age... "Focus" is a fond memory. ;-}

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Ok. Then a week of passive absorbing at worst. You got it. IPv6 is more complicated but not that much more complicated. You already now IPv4.