PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
The block is only by default. The admin can choose to override it. Many big instances have done so, including
- piefed.social
- piefed.world
- piefed.zip
See more information here.
This is disturbing. I'm glad I'm on feddit.dk and I saw "my" admin (SorteKanin) in the comments of that "more information here" comment thread pointing out how that shouldn't be hardcoded into the software.
It's not disturbing. OP has unwittingly found a bug that they were passing off as a gotcha.