I'm actually curious if Reddit's going to be the first successful example of monetizing what is essentially a community into an IPO fast enough before normies get on it and start flooding it with their low-effort takes and celebrity gossip drivel.

I know this is possible to do by other communities like paid forums (SomethingAwful), or grow into an adjacent e-commerce supported community (e.g. bodybuilding forums), but is it possible to do it on Reddit's scale? We'll see.

I have no horse in the race either way, most of my posts on there are from the Reddit vs Digg era, so I'm not really invested.