This is the internet, everyone is given shit. You are giving me shit, I am giving you shit. The shit is eternal and infinite. You will give and be given shit for the rest of your time on the internet, and so will everyone else. There is no shitless internet as long as you participate.

You’ll come to conclusions that support your biases, I’ll come to the opposite conclusions that support mine, and we’ll both give each other shit from the comfort of our custom tailored echo machines.

This isn't accurate. If this is the nature of your internet communities, I would encourage you to find different communities. It does seem to me that lemmy.world is becoming this type of community, yes, and I have a somewhat-solidifying plan to leave because of it. There are definitely Lemmy instances where an announcement like this wouldn't be met with hundreds of downvotes and people threatening to leave or predicting the downfall of Lemmy as a result (not this instance, but Lemmy as a whole, I think probably because they're not real clear on the difference.)

My reaction to the comments on this announcement is not intended to "give anyone shit." I don't plan to add anything negative to the discussion unless I feel like I have to in order to be honest about my view.

I can pretty much promise you that I'm trying to be open to what you say and evaluate it honestly and engage with you in good faith, although I'll definitely disagree with you on some things. IDK if you believe that, but it's true. If you have no plans to do the same, we don't need to talk. If you're coming at this with the idea that we're supposed to be "giving each other shit" in some big bad-faith waste of time... IDK, man, I think it'd be better for you if you approached it differently, whether or not you think the other person's going to do the same.