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Chee Aun 🤔@cheeaun@mastodon.social (2026-10-11 13:27:49)
🤔 2 cents:

- "Bookmark" saves a *reference* but it gives the impression that you need to organize them later.
- "Save" saves a *copy* but it gives the impression that you can just look it up later.
- Logically, “Save” sounds wrong because saved posts are kinda ephemeral — they can be edited, deleted, reported, etc.
- However, “Save" feels *lighter* than “Bookmark” because it doesn’t require organising them, so there's less friction for users to use it.

Twitter’s “Bookmark” may just be legacy.
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Dale Price@dale_price@mastodon.online (2026-10-11 15:46:35)
@cheeaun one could also interpret them as: bookmarking holds your place within a larger context (a page in a book, or a page within a website), and saving holds the thing itself outside of its original context (like a post outside of its original place in the timeline)

I’ve also never been a fan of websites reusing the names of established web browser features (like bookmarks) for their own, different features.

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Chee Aun 🤔@cheeaun@mastodon.social (2026-10-11 15:59:52)
@dale_price I also wanted to raise the point about bookmarks in browsers vs websites, but back then, social bookmarking sites were kinda trendy so it "makes sense" I guess 🤷‍♂️

If going back even further, Internet Explorer uses "favourites" and Netscape uses "bookmarks"… 🙈👴