A lot of the IPs are virtual, e.g. services on metallb, and my home is littered with wi-fi smart-home devices, each requiring their own ipv4.
Before all this I had my own router which allowed me to change the subnet, but after "upgrading" my router, it hard-codes the subnet it dishes out to be a /24. So on my LAN, with my current router, I can only feasibly support a /24 subnet on ipv4.
The real kicker is if I could disable the DHCP server, I could run my own, but my ISP's router software does not have that setting.
Why tie your identity to it at all? There doesn't need to be a collective name for lemmy users.
Is an email user an emailer? Is a reader of RSS feeds a RSS'er? Are discord users discorders? Or signal users signallers?
(Note: Not actually sure if discord users call themselves something)