I'll note that Mastodon is ahead of Twitter in a lot of ways. Being able to individually lock posts has always been a godsend, and the new editing posts feature and timeline scrubbing options aren't a thing on Twitter at all.

I feel like 3.5 shows it's willing to go beyond trying to just copy Twitter and that's a good thing. It's just a shame that Mastodon development is essentially just 3 people now bc i do wanna see it grow more even if I'm on pleroma