3. Annotation is now a web standard

Annotation is now a web standard

Google and Facebook (and Reddit to a lesser extent) are not free services. We pay for it by giving them knowledge about ourselves, and they transform this knowledge into real world money through advertising and direct selling to interested parties.

Wikipedia is a huge site that does not make money off it's users. The Google and Facebook model isn't the only possible model.

Who will be interested in paying for annotations??

There are many examples in the past saying that X can never exist because it wont make money. I wouldn't be so arrogant and say that nobody will ever find a way to monetize web annotations.

And importantly, the GAFA earn more money as monopolies than if they were small companies. So if the annotations are handled by several independent services they won't even be able to monetize their service correctly.

I'm not sure I follow. What does that have to do with web annotations? GAFA have nothing to do with web annotation besides the fact that some of them make web browser, so they would have to implement it into their browsers

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