The article calls ipv6 an “easy way” to decentralize but I don’t see it.
If you click the link on how to get your own ipv6 space you get two options: Ask your ISP for an address or set up a tunnel to someone else who will give you one.
These are the same options we have today for ipv4. I went on my crappy large ISP’s website. They are not handing out static ipv6.
Why would they? The problem has always been more about corporate power than tech.
That'll change with time. I'm behind ISP NAT for IPv4 but have static IPv6 direct to all my devices in the home. My ISP ran out of IPv4 relatively early so had to go this way.
On the other hand, this won't really change much for the firewall issues named above. Computers are too insecure to expose them all to the internet, all the time. We'd need pretty radical changes in how software is written to create a truly flat worldwide network (which has never existed before).
If you click the link on how to get your own ipv6 space you get two options: Ask your ISP for an address or set up a tunnel to someone else who will give you one.
These are the same options we have today for ipv4. I went on my crappy large ISP’s website. They are not handing out static ipv6.
Why would they? The problem has always been more about corporate power than tech.