Why are only SOME communities inaccessible on lemmy.world?

I can access c/world on lemmy.world without problem:

But I cannot access c/whatstheword:

It seems unlikely that this specific and innocent community is blocked on either instance.

What's going on here?

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And now I suddenly can. Was something tweaked by the admins?

I also couldn't search for the said community. Now that is also resolved. Very very odd.

EDIT: interestingly, from the instance lemdro.id the said community is also inaccessible
- if you're the first person from your instance to interact with a remote community, it takes a moment for it to sync.
  
  also keep in mind that lemmy.world is too fucking big, so they're very slow to talk to.
  
  how do I interact with a community I cannot connect to? Would I need to manipulate the URL in order to "access" it, although this gives the error page not found, of course. (Not the best method of poking another community.)
  
  But that's interesting that it takes some time to sync or whatever. Unfortunately, this immediately creates the illusion that some communities don't exist, and causes people to create a double community. This just happened to me. I created c/whatstheword on my instance...
Is that why my comments take hours to get replies? lemmy.world is too big?
Try select "Undetermined" in language options.
- nah unfortunately that's not it

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