

Instance blocks, like puberty blockers, are completely reversible.
They are also almost never reversed because the regret rate is vanishingly small.
If you're worried that you may have joined the wrong mastodon server / instance, these instructions include information about how to export accounts you follow as well as accounts that follow you (most sets of instructions only cover the latter)
https://codingitwrong.com/2022/10/10/migrating-a-mastodon-account.html
Find an instance that suits you - it doesn't need to be one of the massive servers; a more specialist one may have a local timeline & moderation policies that suit you much better!
âAt first, I was like, âOh, weâre journalists; maybe we shouldnât block anything,â but once I saw the first five or 10 photos, I was like, âOh, no, weâre blocking these people.ââ
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment
They really just set up an instance without thinking at all, didnât they? Even a little experience of twitter should have been enough to give them a basic understanding of what mods do - but apparently not