He was referring to working with reddit to optimize the API requests so it's less stress on the servers. I'm not sure where this thing about it being a "joke"

He was referring to working with reddit to optimize the API requests so it's less stress on the servers. I'm not sure where this thing about it being a "joke" came from. Reddit accused him of making too many requests (even though he was insanely below the threshold they themselves allotted), and he said he was willing to fit within whatever they wanted as a new threshold, or "keep the app quiet"