@kirby I do follow hashtags and I use the bubble timeline to check for new accounts (the known timeline is a clusterfuck cause old and popular-ish instance). Couldn't care less for the chat and shoutbox features, but I guess those can be also disabled in Pleroma?

I guess the biggest reason people still run Akkoma is that migrating to Pleroma wouldn't bring big enough advantages to be worth it. Migrating from Pleroma to Akkoma is the same: why go through the trouble?

I can't say anything about the devs involved in either project. Isn't there still cooperation between the forks? The code doesn't differ that much AFAIK.