diff --git a/app/soapbox/__fixtures__/akkoma-instance.json b/app/soapbox/__fixtures__/akkoma-instance.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a4da0dc94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/soapbox/__fixtures__/akkoma-instance.json
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+{
+  "approval_required": false,
+  "avatar_upload_limit": 2000000,
+  "background_image": "https://fe.disroot.org/images/city.jpg",
+  "background_upload_limit": 4000000,
+  "banner_upload_limit": 4000000,
+  "description": "FEDIsroot - Federated social network powered by Pleroma (open beta)",
+  "description_limit": 5000,
+  "email": "admin@example.lan",
+  "languages": [
+    "en"
+  ],
+  "max_toot_chars": 5000,
+  "pleroma": {
+    "metadata": {
+      "account_activation_required": false,
+      "features": [
+        "pleroma_api",
+        "akkoma_api",
+        "mastodon_api",
+        "mastodon_api_streaming",
+        "polls",
+        "v2_suggestions",
+        "pleroma_explicit_addressing",
+        "shareable_emoji_packs",
+        "multifetch",
+        "pleroma:api/v1/notifications:include_types_filter",
+        "editing",
+        "media_proxy",
+        "relay",
+        "pleroma_emoji_reactions",
+        "exposable_reactions",
+        "profile_directory",
+        "custom_emoji_reactions",
+        "pleroma:get:main/ostatus"
+      ],
+      "federation": {
+        "enabled": true,
+        "exclusions": false,
+        "mrf_hashtag": {
+          "federated_timeline_removal": [],
+          "reject": [],
+          "sensitive": [
+            "nsfw"
+          ]
+        },
+        "mrf_object_age": {
+          "actions": [
+            "delist",
+            "strip_followers"
+          ],
+          "threshold": 604800
+        },
+        "mrf_policies": [
+          "ObjectAgePolicy",
+          "TagPolicy",
+          "HashtagPolicy",
+          "InlineQuotePolicy"
+        ],
+        "quarantined_instances": [],
+        "quarantined_instances_info": {
+          "quarantined_instances": {}
+        }
+      },
+      "fields_limits": {
+        "max_fields": 10,
+        "max_remote_fields": 20,
+        "name_length": 512,
+        "value_length": 2048
+      },
+      "post_formats": [
+        "text/plain",
+        "text/html",
+        "text/markdown",
+        "text/bbcode",
+        "text/x.misskeymarkdown"
+      ],
+      "privileged_staff": false
+    },
+    "stats": {
+      "mau": 83
+    },
+    "vapid_public_key": null
+  },
+  "poll_limits": {
+    "max_expiration": 31536000,
+    "max_option_chars": 200,
+    "max_options": 20,
+    "min_expiration": 0
+  },
+  "registrations": false,
+  "stats": {
+    "domain_count": 6972,
+    "status_count": 8081,
+    "user_count": 357
+  },
+  "thumbnail": "https://fe.disroot.org/instance/thumbnail.jpeg",
+  "title": "FEDIsroot",
+  "upload_limit": 16000000,
+  "uri": "https://fe.disroot.org",
+  "urls": {
+    "streaming_api": "wss://fe.disroot.org"
+  },
+  "version": "2.7.2 (compatible; Akkoma 3.3.1-0-gaf90a4e51)"
+}
diff --git a/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts b/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
index ab51c9159..0df95fcb3 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
@@ -192,4 +192,12 @@ describe('normalizeInstance()', () => {
     const result = normalizeInstance(instance);
     expect(result.title).toBe('pixelfed');
   });
+
+  it('renames Akkoma to Pleroma', () => {
+    const instance = require('soapbox/__fixtures__/akkoma-instance.json');
+    const result = normalizeInstance(instance);
+
+    expect(result.version).toEqual('2.7.2 (compatible; Pleroma 2.4.5+akkoma)');
+
+  });
 });
diff --git a/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts b/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts
index e137c2165..ff55ef4a5 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/normalizers/instance.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ const normalizeVersion = (instance: ImmutableMap<string, any>) => {
   });
 };
 
+/** Rename Akkoma to Pleroma+akkoma */
+const fixAkkoma = (instance: ImmutableMap<string, any>) => {
+  const version: string = instance.get('version', '');
+
+  if (version.includes('Akkoma')) {
+    return instance.set('version', '2.7.2 (compatible; Pleroma 2.4.5+akkoma)');
+  } else {
+    return instance;
+  }
+};
+
 // Normalize instance (Pleroma, Mastodon, etc.) to Mastodon's format
 export const normalizeInstance = (instance: Record<string, any>) => {
   return InstanceRecord(
@@ -117,6 +128,7 @@ export const normalizeInstance = (instance: Record<string, any>) => {
 
       // Normalize version
       normalizeVersion(instance);
+      fixAkkoma(instance);
 
       // Merge defaults
       instance.mergeDeepWith(mergeDefined, InstanceRecord());
diff --git a/app/soapbox/utils/features.ts b/app/soapbox/utils/features.ts
index 823f8df1a..3cb7e98dc 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/utils/features.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/utils/features.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ export const SOAPBOX = 'soapbox';
  */
 export const GLITCH = 'glitch';
 
+/**
+ * Akkoma, a Pleroma fork.
+ * @see {@link https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma}
+ */
+export const AKKOMA = 'akkoma';
+
 /** Parse features for the given instance */
 const getInstanceFeatures = (instance: Instance) => {
   const v = parseVersion(instance.version);
@@ -202,7 +208,7 @@ const getInstanceFeatures = (instance: Instance) => {
      * Pleroma chats API.
      * @see {@link https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/development/API/chats/}
      */
-    chats: v.software === PLEROMA && gte(v.version, '2.1.0'),
+    chats: v.software === PLEROMA && gte(v.version, '2.1.0') && v.build !== AKKOMA,
 
     /**
      * Paginated chats API.