We're super excited to announce some new features for dust related to messaging burners interested in your regional!
Push Notifications
You can now send push notifications out to burners who have accessed your regional in dust. This is a great way for announcements like ticket sales, burn times, deadlines for submissions or soliciting volunteer signups.
Notifications can be sent on their own, along with a social media post or when an email is sent out for your newsletter.
Mastodon
You may post to social media when you have important announcements. Now dust can also show these posts in a "Messages" tab that will appear. When the notification goes out it will also send a push notification to burners who have accessed your regional burn.
Mastodon is a radically different social media platform. It is more akin to email in that it is not in control of any one company. It is also open meaning that unlike Facebook etc it is possible to easily integrate into systems like dust.
As Mastodon has no advertising and selling your data not their motivation, it feels like it fits in a lot better with the 10 Burning Man principles, particularly Decommodification.
You can read more about how to setup the Mastodon integration in the docs.
Newsletters
Do you have a mailing list for important announcements? Now you can have any emails sent out automatically appear in the dust app and a push notification sent out to your burners.
You can read more about how to set this up in the docs.