[sillysaurusx]

This is an excellent comment — thank you for getting these sources together. I’ve favorited it in case I have to explain the situation to someone again.

But! There’s suddenly a ray of hope. See the comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612285

Do you happen to know whether the call was with Steve himself, or some other Reddit employee? If it wasn’t Steve, then this whole thing was a giant miscommunication, which I’ve always suspected from the beginning.

Boy it’s nice to feel hopeful about this for once. I really hope it wasn’t Steve.

[irwiss]

Steve or not doesn't improve anything about the situation, even worse, since it wouldn't even hurt his ego to apologize on behalf of employee he chose radio silence instead, it just shows the intent is to make third party devs fuck off the platform by whatever means necessary

[calf]

I read it was another employee, so maybe their impression got miscommunicated and the CEO assumed the worst - except without any evidence. Which is still bad behavior given that he hasn't addressed the recording evidence publicly. IIRC he Kafkaesquely accused the very act of recording as evidence of aggression/blackmailing, which is just totally out to lunch IMO.