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Adële 🐁!@adele@social.pollux.casa (2026-08-30 21:23:08)
## What's up on the small web? August 2026 roundup
Summer rolls on, and the small web had a busy month: a major Lagrange release, a new graphical client for Android and desktop, terminal tools crossing v2.0, and some good community debates. Here is a roundup of what happened on the small web, the smolnet, and around the Gemini protocol in August 2026....
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https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/whats-up-2026-08.md
gemini://adele.pollux.casa/gemlog/2026-08-30_whats_up_2026_08.gmi
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Brennan Kenneth Brown@brennan@social.lol (2026-08-31 21:27:44)
@adele as someone you linked to, I have to say I cannot wrap my head around someone being so pro-smol web and yet also so pro-LLM and genAI.
There is nothing small or low-tech about these corporate technologies that require the entire world's supply of random access memory and data centres the size of villages that make real people sick and ill.
I am so tired of this.