[kats]

Sorry, had to go check the timeline cause maybe you're right. But I don't think so.

Apollo dev said the call was 24hrs before June 1st. So he asked reddit for 10 million dollars right before he made this post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

He had previously made 2 other posts about it before on Apr 18-19, so that's what he meant by "quiet down". Reddit refused to pay him $10 million and so he went the opposite of "quiet", he made a post telling his story and it blew up.

For the next week when mods were taking their subs private, the Apollo dev didn't disclose to any of them that he'd asked for 10 million to "have Apollo quiet down." If some reddit employee hadn't asked him about it Mastodon, he would never have told anyone about that.

[Timon3]

I'm not sure what timeline you're exactly trying to prove or disprove. It makes sense to me that he'd make a post describing a call with Reddit, after he had a call with Reddit. He doesn't have to describe exactly everything he describes, but fact is: Reddit is claiming he is costing them 20 million dollars per year, he suggested a buy-out for half that. You have to actually prove he tried to threaten them, because the non-threat explanation makes perfect sense - because of course the developer of an app would make posts about the status of communications regarding these changes!

If I'm missing something you're alluding to in the beginning I'd appreciate an explicit explanation :)