The article is by what appears to be a career writer who implies that developers should be doing their job, too. Not to mention this is mostly in unpaid FOSS. The author's method is tone deaf.

As for your response, while factually true, to your example: Lemmy users don't care that you use Linux. Lemmy users care that you're the type of person who will educate yourself enough to learn Linux.

Growth through learning, and part of that learning is figuring out the holes and filling them in. Heck, once Lemmy gets past that stage, we (and all those who took the plunge) will probably all move on to somewhere else.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Not to mention this is mostly in unpaid FOSS

Paid documentation writers at Microsoft are absolutely horrible at it too. That's why I can relate to the post so much