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Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this. Even apart from instances some community names by default aren't federated. It's a really weird stance.
It all makes sense if you look at it from the point of view of Rimu developing a platform that suits their views and interests first and foremost. I don't agree with it, but it's logical and predictable with that frame of analysis.
That's an automated check-system for new piefed instances that specifically ignores communities with specific names. That list has been trimmed down now purely to just insults and slurs. It really isn't a major component of the system as said communities with those names can still be manually federated to it.