@Dingus we've already heard multiple FRAF members outright disprove Gio's framing and "suspicions." like just off the top of my head Austin from Vast Error being supposedly ousted by Hussie when VE got added.

It's also burying the lede heavily to say the issue is "Muscling your fans around with legal threats to get them to delete criticism of you," when it's actually "Stopped letting a fan break the law that any other creator/company would have just sent a DMCA a Long Time Ago." It's "Tried to negotiate with someone who's had a history of acting in bad faith to do THEM a favor when they should have just sent the DMCA, apparently."

Gio wants to act like he's an authority and his voice is important/affiliated? Okay, then that means what he says and how he acts has consequences. I think a lot of fans are mostly worried about Hussie going after them or Homestuck.net or something (because we already know that they're not going after actual fan work and NEVER HAS) because they imagine that hosting a download of someone else's work is the coolest thing they'll ever do, not realizing that they're already setting themselves up for failure. Independent artists get to protect their own work. If it's so outrageous to you that they wanted to try and offer an alternative, I'm sure that next time Hussie is just going to listen to their lawyer and send the DMCA and not bother reaching out to JOIN THEIR COLLECTIVE (gio played himself so hard lmao), so you're in luck!