Why I quit Academia.edu - It's more of a comment...

"I started to upload all my papers to Zenodo now. Why? Because this service doesn’t need to make money and offers a lot of additional possibilities. First, you get a DOI, but that is not all. Besides papers and presentations, you can upload quiet a lot of stuff. This includes software or lessons and the service can connect to GitHub for example. The possibilities are endless and they are knowing what they are doing. You can also control who has access to your publications.

But Zenodo is not the only possibility. Figshare.com is also a yet free service with the possibility to receive DOIs and other services like the Open Science Framework do the same. So the main reason to quit Academia is actually, because you can. Sure, the service has the highest user numbers, but that is something we just need to accept. In the long run I am betting on other services. University and knowledge should be free and accessible (that’s Why I use OrcID), two things Academia is promoting to do, but really doesn’t."