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What makes it superior to MAL?
As far as I know, AniList has better search functionalities and allows korean and chinese manga/animation. While MAL may have larger database of animes. Also they're owned by a Web3 company now ๐ซฅ at least it's not an ad company nor US company because they go wild putting data tracking and collection bloating everything all in the name of Data Brokers profits ๐ป
Hate to break it to you, but it's not just those companies. Kodansha's manga app, KManga, has over 2x the trackers that Facebook has. Them mf'ers are greedy
There was a couple of reasons that I switched a few years back but it really boils down to
-So much more customization for scoring. You can do 1-10 (down to the decimal), 1-5, stars or even smiley faces.
-Extremely clean interface that is way less cluttered then MAL
-Better mobile app support in AL-Chan
-More QOL that caters to the seasonal watcher
-More details about a show
Overall I think it does 99% of what MAL does but does it better. My only gripes with anilist at this point is that they don't show the OPs and EDs like MAL does.
You can easily export your list from MAL to anilist so the barrier to entry is tiny.
Its not a US or Web3 company and works just as great for me