Bookmarking toots: Thanks to the brilliant tips by obscurosaur, I have tried & tested two methods:

1. Reply to the toot with a unique hashtag. Remove the id of the tooter. If you remove id, the tooter can see the reply if they check, but will not get notifications.

2.Reply to the toot & DM to yourself. Remove the id of the tooter. The tooter will not get your reply.

3. Bookmarking with Android:
To quote Prasanna Venkadesh @prashere
"I use an android app called Fedilab which gives you the option to bookmark posts locally on your device."

4.Bookmarking in browser:

To quote Adnan @ahalam
"use the browser bookmark feature? Or a notes app? Or if you use a messenger, message these links to yourself. Personally I use Pocket for saving links."

@BhavanaVarun
@shirishag75
@obscurosaur

Check the two tweets in the thread, and also read waakfest's comments on bookmarking.

But none of this is a replacement for the bookmarking, hope someone develops that feature. That is the only thing I seriously miss from the Bird Site.

CC: for comments @Gargron @stux

@Shudraism @shirishag75 @obscurosaur @Gargron @stux just try signing up for an account on a glitch instance and you will have bookmarking
@liaizon @Shudraism @obscurosaur @Gargron @stux it's possible that Eugen only follows upstream which would make sense as it's the largest instance. So perhaps if upstream i.e. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon would have that feature in its roadmap (there probably is a PR somewhere) then we might get it as mastodon is updated . I have no idea atm as to how much time does Eugen wait before installing a stable update. Smaller instances may not have such issues and hence can roll out faster. 1/n
tootsuite/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - tootsuite/mastodon

@shirishag75 @liaizon @Shudraism @obscurosaur @Gargron @stux

Mastodon.social is the original instance, not the largest one.

The japanese pawoo.net has 100,000 more users than mastodon.social.

@gemlog @shirishag75 @liaizon @Shudraism @obscurosaur @Gargron @stux wow how so? Was there an exodus or just normal growth over time?

@bull500 @shirishag75 @liaizon @Shudraism @obscurosaur @Gargron @stux

It just took off on its own. The next largest instance after mastodon.social is also Japanese. When the Japanese like something, the REALLY like it! Have you not met any Japanese? :-)

https://instances.social/list/old

@gemlog @shirishag75 @liaizon @Shudraism @obscurosaur @Gargron @stux wow that's incredible. Sadly no😪 would love to have friends from Japan someday

@bull500

I am fortunate enough to have a couple of japanese-born friends here in canada and know a couple of friends who went back to japan.
Of course, I also know people who look japanese and have japanese names, but they are canadians actually.