Echobeach started in January 2025 as a discussion among Dutch artists on Facebook and Instagram. Ron van der Ende had asked “Why don’t we start a Pixelfed server especially for Dutch professional artists?” From the people that responded a workgroup was formed to discuss how this could be arranged, organized, moderated and maintained.
The original team: Claudia Borges, Ron van der Ende, Vasilis van Gemert, Sibe Kokke, Anne Kolbe, Rob Moonen, Harco Rutgers and Pim Vlug
We are putting together a new team that will investigate the possibilities of the fediverse as a whole and Pixelfed especially, while at the same time establishing the first accounts and connect with other servers.
This team so far: Claudia Borges, Ron van der Ende, Johan Kleinjan, Petra Laaper, Frans van Lent, Harco Rutgers, Annemarie Slobbe and Boris Tellegen.
Echobeach will be owned by a foundation that we are setting up. The organisation will work as a set of working teams (for example for onboarding, moderation and publicity) led by a board of five persons. We are in the process of finding the right people for that job.