I have wondered about this too. Services like IMDB used to be community projects, but got bought up. I just wonder how the data would be maintained. One method is to have a specific account that will host the posts. People could submit updates, perhaps via comments, that would be merged in. It needs some moderators to run it, but without that you risk spam attacks. Having a dedicated site could allow to control over submission format to make life easier. People could vote on the comments to reward contributors.
There would still be some centralisation to this, but it is hard to totally avoid.
If someone built this for movies it could be adapted for books, games and other media.
Of course there are more open versions via things like Wikipedia, but they have their own issues in hosting the data.
To me it would entail its own website. The data would be hosted onchain. This would tie into comments so people could post their views. That is transparent. Then voting could be implemented, also creating transparency.
Yes there would be centralization at the app level but at least not with the data. Using something like Leopolls would mean it all resides on chain and anyone could replicate the service if they wanted.
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I would hope people are looking into implementing such things. For now I am unclear on how it could work, so I'm just tossing out ideas :)