Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?

What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?

    • Vogi@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      Especially in the homebrew/modding world some even only distribute their stuff over discord. Which is an extra level of stupid. Dont think anything else can beat this.

      • Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.ccOP
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        1 day ago

        Stalker Gamma comes to my mind, for that you had to join a discord in order to access the launcher, that launcher would auto download and install a bunch of mods for Stalker Anomaly into one big modded game.

      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        Sadly way too many niche groups there and also fb for me to delete. I’d have nothing otherwise.

        I just interact as little as possible and never install their software.