@bss @draft13 yeah, the resource requirement differences were one reason I didn't do Mastodon. Another was the bits and moving parts were reduced compared to Mastodon which matters in terms of keeping your instance updated and running.

The things that I think work in Mastodon's favor were that it had a better interaction with kbin/lemmy and it can talk to Threads if that's something you value. Akkoma seems to be able to get posts and follow accounts, but it doesn't seem to send anything (as of a day or two ago when I last did a spot check with another boardgamer). Everything else has been fine in terms of interoperability.