Try the official appdb on wine: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=41327 where it is listed as not currently working.

You can have flatpak install it’s stuff into your home with the --user flag.

The other user did not provide an actual source so I went ahead and searched for one. I found many discussions about the controversy but no actual primary source. Closest I could find is this: https://nichegamer.com/factorio-founder-kovarex-interview-cancel-culture-and-secret-support/

Debian Testing or openSuse Tumbleweed

Me looking from openSUSE Tumbleweed:

Yeah, they gave up recently after X, formerly known as Twitter, again and again and again shut down the methods Nitter used to get the posts.

People don’t care about security until they get hit. Source: working in IT for 10 years.

It also makes updating easier. When a lib has a bug it can be fixed by updating one package. If every application on your system was statically linked, each one of these would have to be updated individually.