Want to create own instance? https://masto.host/
Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

Masto.host
Want to mute all accounts from a particular instance? Go to profile page and select this option

Tweets which do not involve you are not searchable by term is not available in the platform by design. So add hash tags to find them later

#mastodontips

There is a variant of mastodon which is having extra features like thread mode, bookmark tweets and more. these features are not available on mastodon.social

Read more here https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/

Introduction | Mastodon Glitch Edition

You can restrict the tweets to your followers, you can also enable follow approving mechanism if you want to filter them
You can upload audio files as well
Want to crosspost your toots in twitter? Use https://moa.party/
Moa: Mastodon/Twitter/Instagram Crossposter

Link your Mastodon account to Twitter and Instagram

Some functionality of mastodon do not make sense? Ask with hashtag #FediverseAMA
You can use single column layout or multi column layout in desktop https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/
Mastodon 2.9

The latest release of Mastodon introduces a simplified single-column interface as the new default for new users

Mastodon Blog
You can add :verified: in some instances to get twitter like verification image in some instances. But it is not actual verification, it is just appending a custom emoji with name. This is not available in mastodon.social because it is misleading