MrKaplan mentioned that there were a ton of "spam communities", so possibly they have since been removed. They weren't real anyway. https://lemmy.world/comment/13613002.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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I know that other services, like the trending community bot, that recent had issues in the same vein. The trend bot only showed like 3 communities, and it normally shows about a dozen.
So, there is likely a federation issue, or something wrong with however these services get their data.