Did it in a similar way. I used:

sudo cp -rp

to keep permissions also. Worked like a charm.

Can you explain why you think that?

Gotcha. Thanks for sharing. We’ll see what happens with Snap. I mostly use APT anyway. I had some few cases of Snap where it even wouldn’t update itself.

Why PopOS and why isn’t Ubuntu great lately? Did I miss something?

But all the other federated instances will have an duplicate of certain posts/comments, right?