alt Hacker NewsWell, you're very lucky (genuinely).
In 2025, I tried to access my services using IPv6 with 4G phones and different subscriptions (different ISPs), fact is, many (most?) of them did not support IPv6 at all :(
I had to revert to IPv4. And really I have nothing against IPv6, but yeah, as a simple user, self hosting a bunch of services for friends and family: it was simply just not possible to use only IPv6 :(
(for context, the 4G providers are French, in metropolitan France)
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rjsw • yesterday at 3:21 PM
My phone contract that does offer IPv6 is with Free, I could not work out whether it would disable IPv4 if I enabled IPv6 so have not tried changing it.
There is not a single ISP in Australia that doesn't provide proper IPv6 support, with the vast majority granting /48 addresses.
It is purely and excuse to not use it in 2026.