That could indeed be the case, but that's probably a low priority item for most of the client devs.

I had been asking Rimu to add this feature for a while as Lemmyverse doesn't show Piefed communities on the community search, and as a lot of people use Lemmyverse to search for communities, Piefed communities are basically invisible.

This solves it, if other clients want to implement it too, that would be nice of course