I think the server is new and still has to handle a huge load of federation from all the communities their new users are now subscribing to. But “pending” means nothing in reality, you can already comment there and will see the posts in your timeline.
I have disabled and uninstalled it, but office 365 still enforces it as the default save as location, so now when I use the dialogue, the system hangs for 30 seconds. Even disabled it in the policy management, but no dice.