Post #1863663
2025-09-17 22:14 UTC
Further PSA 1, how to do account deletion on Academia.edu without agreeing to the new terms of service on the way:
If you want to delete your account, open academia.edu, do NOT click accept to the new terms, but instead click "privacy policy". You can then go to the top left dropdown menu with your name on it, click "account settings", scroll to the bottom of the page, and there's the account deletion option. You can even leave them a little note if you want though I doubt they'll read it.
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social 2025-09-17 22:16
Further PSA 2, where do we go instead? Probably the current best option is Knowledge Commons, which is run as a nonprofit and can be found at hcommons.org (they also run the hcommons.social mastodon server). Knowledge Commons gives you essentially the same profile-building tools as Academia with far less slop and more control over what's going on.