Community search provides poor results compared to default WebUI

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When attempting to search for communities via Alexandrite, I get vastly different results compared to the default Lemmy website (and most apps). It doesn't seem to match my search term well, and doesn't sort by popularity. This happens when searching in general or choosing which community to post in.

Here's an example of searching "games" in alexandrite:

Most of these are unpopular communities, and the search failed to get the ones I'm looking for: games@lemmy.world and games@sh.itjust.works.

Here's an example of searching "games" in the official UI on the same account:

The results are more accurate to my search term, and it seems to helpfully sort by popularity, showing me games@lemmy.world on the top. I'm not sure why Alexandrite is providing different search results considering it should be the same API.

I find myself having to switch back to Lemmy to post or search for something, which is a shame because I loooooove Alexandrite.