One problem is that it takes a lot of work and effort to build any of the valuable hubs where people post information.
Ever try to start a forum? It's a monumental task with no guarantee of success. You may even need to employ people to grow and maintain one.
And once you've finally grown one of these hubs that accumulates recipes, lyrics, real estate listings, classifieds, etc. (whatever you had in mind) there's no incentive to make it as easy as possible to share it with the world. Once you get over "ugh, everyone just wants to make a buck", there's the fact that it wasn't free to build and maintain the platform to begin with. And perhaps the only incentive to build the platform was the idea that people would pay for the value.
Or, who is supposed to do the work of curating and organizing all of this information and then producing an API so that others can build on it, and why haven't they started? There are probably some inconvenient truths in the answer beyond cynicism.
Ha, I'm trying to start a data ownership forum now. My approach has been to have it be a central place for support for all my open source projects. We'll see how that works out.
Ever try to start a forum? It's a monumental task with no guarantee of success. You may even need to employ people to grow and maintain one.
And once you've finally grown one of these hubs that accumulates recipes, lyrics, real estate listings, classifieds, etc. (whatever you had in mind) there's no incentive to make it as easy as possible to share it with the world. Once you get over "ugh, everyone just wants to make a buck", there's the fact that it wasn't free to build and maintain the platform to begin with. And perhaps the only incentive to build the platform was the idea that people would pay for the value.
Or, who is supposed to do the work of curating and organizing all of this information and then producing an API so that others can build on it, and why haven't they started? There are probably some inconvenient truths in the answer beyond cynicism.