A common question about Mastodon is the difference between favourites and bookmarks:
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A common question about Mastodon is the difference between favourites and bookmarks:
Favourites are the "likes" of Mastodon. If you favourite a post, it lets the author know you enjoyed it and adds your username to the "favourites" section below that post.
Bookmarks are a private way of keeping track of posts you want to go back to later. When you bookmark a post, no one else knows about it. Bookmarking just adds the post to your own private list of bookmarks.@FediTips I've noticed that people seem to boost posts more often than liking them. I've wondered about that, because on other platforms it seems to be the other way around? Are boosts also a form of "liking" a post, and not only wanting to show the post to others?
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A common question about Mastodon is the difference between favourites and bookmarks:
Favourites are the "likes" of Mastodon. If you favourite a post, it lets the author know you enjoyed it and adds your username to the "favourites" section below that post. Bookmarks are a private way of keeping track of posts you want to go back to later. When you bookmark a post, no one else knows about it. Bookmarking just adds the post to your own private list of bookmarks.@FediTips the confusion is totally understandable. "Favorites" is (was?) commonly used to refer to browser bookmarks. It's a bit silly to have both terms here
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A common question about Mastodon is the difference between favourites and bookmarks:
Favourites are the "likes" of Mastodon. If you favourite a post, it lets the author know you enjoyed it and adds your username to the "favourites" section below that post. Bookmarks are a private way of keeping track of posts you want to go back to later. When you bookmark a post, no one else knows about it. Bookmarking just adds the post to your own private list of bookmarks.Do any clients / servers support categorization of bookmarks? I'd appreciate being able to have "Watch later" / "Read later" / "Maybe buy" / and "Other" buckets for the things I bookmark.
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@FediTips I've noticed that people seem to boost posts more often than liking them. I've wondered about that, because on other platforms it seems to be the other way around? Are boosts also a form of "liking" a post, and not only wanting to show the post to others?
Boosting makes the post appear in your follower's timelines and also federates the post to all of your followers' servers.
Boosting helps interesting posts spread to other servers, whereas favouriting basically just tells the person who made the post that you liked it.
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@FediTips the confusion is totally understandable. "Favorites" is (was?) commonly used to refer to browser bookmarks. It's a bit silly to have both terms here
Yeah, agreed. I'm not sure what the origin of the naming is.
It's possibly because bookmarks were added much later? Originally Mastodon only had favourites, so they served as both likes and bookmarks.
I think bookmarks were added as a feature later based on code from an unofficial fork called Glitch Mastodon.
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Do any clients / servers support categorization of bookmarks? I'd appreciate being able to have "Watch later" / "Read later" / "Maybe buy" / and "Other" buckets for the things I bookmark.
As far as I know there's no bookmark categorisation in the Mastodon API, so if a client did this it would have to run its own system of categories that wouldn't sync across clients.
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A common question about Mastodon is the difference between favourites and bookmarks:
Favourites are the "likes" of Mastodon. If you favourite a post, it lets the author know you enjoyed it and adds your username to the "favourites" section below that post. Bookmarks are a private way of keeping track of posts you want to go back to later. When you bookmark a post, no one else knows about it. Bookmarking just adds the post to your own private list of bookmarks.@FediTips Has anyone discovered a way to bulk-delete one's bookmarks?
Like, *many* thousands of them all at once, because deleting one at a time isn't feasible at those numbers, and they're taking up space on the server for no good reason.
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@FediTips Has anyone discovered a way to bulk-delete one's bookmarks?
Like, *many* thousands of them all at once, because deleting one at a time isn't feasible at those numbers, and they're taking up space on the server for no good reason.
There isn't any feature like that, but bookmarks don't really take up server space as they don't affect whether a post federates or not. The post is still stored on your server even if you unbookmark it, it just won't appear in your bookmark list any more.
By the way, is there some reason for having many thousands of bookmarks? Not meaning to judge, just genuinely curious
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There isn't any feature like that, but bookmarks don't really take up server space as they don't affect whether a post federates or not. The post is still stored on your server even if you unbookmark it, it just won't appear in your bookmark list any more.
By the way, is there some reason for having many thousands of bookmarks? Not meaning to judge, just genuinely curious
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We may have discussed this before; it has to do with how I use the folder in various ways as temp storage of articles, music, reference, etc. These pile up over time, so hence my Q. But if it doesn't matter all that much to the server, maybe it's not an issue. Hope that's the case. Thanks for the info -
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We may have discussed this before; it has to do with how I use the folder in various ways as temp storage of articles, music, reference, etc. These pile up over time, so hence my Q. But if it doesn't matter all that much to the server, maybe it's not an issue. Hope that's the case. Thanks for the infoAh yeah, rings a bell!
If you're using Mastodon through a browser, you might use the browser's bookmarks as a workaround and a way of categorising them? Sorry if I've suggested this before
