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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by carrylex to c/[email protected]

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People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (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/

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly this isn't even true anymore. Most major ISPs have implemented dual stack now. The customer doesn't know or care because it's done at the CPE for them.

I use a browser extension which tells me if the site I'm at is 6 or 4 or mixed. In 2024 most major sites support V6. A lot of this is due to CDN supporting it natively.

The fact that GitHub doesn't is quickly becoming the exception.

[–] serpineslair 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

May I ask which extension you are using?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IPvFoo

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfoo/

There is a chrome version too.

[–] serpineslair 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IPv6 traffic is globally steady at around 37%. So it isn't a majority by far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

Globally it's at about 47% and growing at about 4% per year. If the rate remains unchanged it'll be about a decade for >95%.

But the reality of it is, you don't need global adoption out of the box. You just need majority adoption in the countries you visit, which for me are western countries (north America and Europe) which now have a majority adoption.