To the newcomers to the fediverse. Don’t let the last few days or even the next few be your only impression on this. When we all came over from twitter it was a shit show and nothing worked right because everything was overwhelmed. Give it a few days. It’ll get better.
Hopefully once they fix this they will unban your instance, however that’s the beauty/catch about the fediverse, instances that they find unfitting will be defederated.