I received another notification from Academia.edu recently, for whatever it is worth. Through this website, which I joined this year to catch up with a British friend in Manchester, I receive weekly invites to participate with the review and discussion of academic papers.
But I am too busy with work. Besides my website work, I have other online projects including investing.
With this latest email alert, for the first time that I have clicked on 'View your Mentions', I could actually see the articles I have been cited in, and indeed they relate to my theological and philosophical works.
The link worked the first time, anyway. Not the second.
So, I suppose this is legitimate.
My PhD was just posted in full on Dr. Russell Norman Murray; in 2020, but edited versions have existed for years as well as my full MPhil thesis and related articles. It is good to see that to some significant extent my website work is serving as academic work for peer review. I have stated on my websites that my website work is indeed and of course peer reviewable.