[themoonisachees]

The page this post links to is for the prism launcher, a 3rd-party launcher that enables a lot of very useful features such as automatic mod installs. Crucially, it is distributed as a flatpak with sane default permissions, which means that pretty much all linux users are safe (turns out even the ones not using flatpak were safe because they borked their unit file but still).

People thought of sandboxing the stuff, but the people thinking of that and the people making the mods aren't the same people and the people making the mods would rather be able to do things outside a single API.