How would an #IPv6 only instance of Mastodon be able to play in this space? Would it be a huge irritant to other instance operators who might see it as "broken" and fill up with retries or would they simply be invisible?

@vees even if you server is , it is relatively easy to add a CDN like cloudflare in front of it, and reverse-proxy both IPv4 and IPv6. That's what I do with my IPv6 only server, e.g. gryphontechnology.com

That is if you still want to interoperate with the 60% of the internet that is still IPv4.

@sgryphon My question was more along the lines of what if you don’t want to interoperate with that 60%? Are you making things harder for everybody else?

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@vees I don't think it is a big issue; in 2 years IPv6 will be > 50%, and then IPv4 in the minority. Like early on a lot of things did not work for IPv6, from now on I think we will increasingly see things not working with IPv4.

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