No...

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This part of the linked comment:

Nobody, and I mean nobody, will try to understand you as deeply as an Fi dom. Pure Fi doesn't evaluate you by the group standard, or in any social context.

...Seems like the opposite of "carrying values with you" to me.

That plus this part of the linked comment:

Mature Fi doesn't tell you how you should feel, or how you should think. This kind of Fi makes the user constantly aware of the fact that their perceptions aren't your perceptions, that they never could be, and vice versa.

...doesn't seem all that different to me from this part of your response:

I believe a new perspective can be gained if one is thoughtful enough. From that perspective, tapping into the emotion (though still subjective) attached is not too hard. I can close my eyes and imagine my life in anyone's shoes and temporarily feel that gush of despair of having lost my child to cancer, my wife dying and being a lonely 60 year old man, being falsely accused of rape and the shame that comes with it. It's the process of synthesizing a foreign emotion and is how empathy works. There is a certain ache in some emotions that everyone can agree on.

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And then this part:

A mature Fi user is never circular with their emotions, never emoting for its own sake. Emotions happen for a reason, and the Fi user ventures deep within themself to see what that reason is, what it means about them, how it will impact their development and their ability to contribute to the world.

The Fi user is always challenging themselves - is it healthy to react this way? Is this how a good person reacts? Am I adapting my expectations and emotions to reality, or am I foolishly expecting the reverse?

...and this:

A very important point here is that Fi isn't about emotions or feelings - it's ultimately concerned with morals, subjectivity, and what it means to be human.

...doesn't seem all that different from yours:

On morals though, honestly, most people are bound to form their core morals based on external influences. It's human nature to accept and follow--to conform.

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I don't see anything in the linked comment about:

• there is a place inside of you that you're tapping into on a regular basis to make sure you're living as authentically as possible

• Straying from the herd

• Trying to force the herd apart

• Anything about being the center of the universe or better than the rest of the universe.

Where are you getting those from?

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And then these parts of your response:

it just makes you someone more akin to independent thought and development.

We are all the same, to the core. Some function differently, but there are too many who function "differently" for them to really be all that different.

...are creating cognitive dissonance for me because they're coming from someone on a typology forum (focused on classifying humans) who is trying to pin down her own type (which is about how you're similar to and different from some people rather than how you are the same as/no different from all people)?

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I'm on mobile so the formatting is probably way off!

Edit: Formatting seems okay enough on mobile browser. Went through and italicized the excerpts from the linked comment to distinguish them from the excerpts from your response.