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.

@Shudraism the other trick is if you are using an instance that has the feature natively like https://awoo.space or any instance on https://fediverse.network/mastodon that says the word Glitch
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@liaizon
Wait, are you saying some instances have the bookmark feature, and it is called "glitch"?

@Shudraism Yes! there are many different features you can get by using different versions of the software. So you are currently on the "Original" version of #Mastodon but there are a few other forks of it with different features. The biggest other fork (that has native bookmarking) is called Glitch-Soc (https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/) and one of the other large forks is @darius's #Hometown which I think also has bookmarking

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

Introduction | Mastodon Glitch Edition

@liaizon @darius

This is very helpful, thank you very much for the information.

#Bookmarks #Mastodon

@Shudraism @darius wow bookmarks got merged into mainline! maybe because of this thread! should be coming to mastodon.social soon then!
@liaizon @darius
Yey!! 🙌
@obscurosaur this calls for a celebration.