Reasons I use each: ::: spoiler AniList gives good stats and breakdowns of what genres, etc, you tend to prefer in a clean, user friendly format https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/6632c8ca-5a0d-4bb4-ad63-14064d5b571f.png::: ::: spoiler Anime-Planet gives me generally good recommendations, based on anime I want to see something like, or my overall library preferences https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/7f33a955-2dcc-4011-aa64-09790e0be5fc.png::: ::: spoiler LiveChart's just good at giving me what I'm looking forward to in a good digestible feed. Sometimes I scroll through past seasons to see what I may have missed, this is why I maintain a list there https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0d7039b7-6ff8-4956-a333-aa1043549a80.png::: ::: spoiler AniDB gives incredibly detailed analytics, has a cool timeline of all your anime watching history. I think this is just really satisfying to look at https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/441c5866-5d1b-4cd8-b9eb-4c18f3fb23b0.png:::
MyAnimeList honestly doesn't really have much I care about, just people tend to get squirmish if I link them anything else, so it's the easiest list to send to people without having to explain why I don't use MAL
Anilist looks much better, though they don't list everything. Some recaps or special episodes, and some novels are missing due to their rules, so I also use kitsu to keep track of everything, seeing as I can just send in a request to add/update entries if they're not there/incomplete.
I switched from MAL to AniList a while back. I think it was back during the API outage, got tired of not having apps for tracking and wanted something with a more modern interface.
AniList is great, though I will say the more modern UI also made the page loading a bit more sluggish.
Is there any "real" benefit to using it over MAL or anilist though? The main (and sole) public instance is riddled with more social media trackers than MAL itself.
I've been eyeing Ani.db, which is not open source to my knowledge but its barebones enough to not have trackers, but it doesnt work with MALsync.
I used to use MAL through the MyAniList app (not to be confused with MAL) but switched to AniList during the api outage in 2018. Nowadays I mainly track manga and anime automatically through tachiyomiJ2K and aniyomi respectively so I don't interact directly with AniList much, apart from browsing upcoming anime and discovering other series from writers, seiyuus, mangakas etc.
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