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Decentralizing the database in a federated structure for anime tracking is a very good idea. Right now I'm using Anitrend that is open source but is only a interface to Anilist.
Like you pointed I think the major challenge will be to establish a solid new shows database entries police(s). Not sure how we could manage that effectively. Governance will be key but you also don't want to be a hostage of this project for your life.
One aspect to be taken in consideration is privacy. I think a lot of people would appreciate to have access to the new tracker without having to share anything about them.
Oh well, no. The database won't be decentralized. That just invites chaos. Bookwyrm did that and now there are lots of duplicates in their library, which I definitely want to avoid. The things that will be federated are animes' forums (as communities in Lemmy for example), and those communities will have threads that will be either a forum thread or a review which others can comment on from any federated platform. Some other things might get federated in the future.
I decided to just scrape either MAL alone or multiple sources.
If you have any ideas on how the database can be decentralized while efficiently avoiding duplicates and spam, please do say it.