The only differentiator I ever saw with Quora is the presence of known public figures answering questions about their own work or area of expertise. Really, it'

The only differentiator I ever saw with Quora is the presence of known public figures answering questions about their own work or area of expertise. Really, it's not a whole lot different than a Reddit AMA in theory, but it at least felt like these people maintained a real presence and weren't just promoting their latest books or films. But that is inherently not scalable. There are a limited number of celebrity subject matter experts. Heck, I even used to use it myself for a while. It was fairly interesting being able to give detailed meaningful answers to questions about how government budgeting and defense contracting works in a totally non-political context where you just give the technical details and people seem to actually care. But I feel like it didn't last? I don't know what Quora could have done. Seemingly, the wave of utter nonstop political toxicity just took over the entire Internet. Being completely general purpose, they don't have the narrow niche appeal like the Stack Exchanges, Hacker News, and the few hobbyist sub-Reddits still worth going to that allows them to keep out the people just looking to shout and be heard. The reality of the world these days seems to be you either go for quality but guarantee you're never going to get big, or you go all-in trying for a payday knowing you're almost certain to become a cesspool of toxic pointlessness, but hopefully addictive toxic pointlessness you can use to sell ad space.