To be honest, I was waiting for an alternative to Reddit to gain steam and I'm glad I found Lemmy. I don't really like what Reddit has become and the changes to the API is the push I needed to really be done with it.

You can read the whole call transcript here: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f915e6a5c7014

Basically, Christian initially says:

I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We're good. That's mostly a joke.

And then you can read the misunderstanding that follows and the apologies because of the misunderstanding.