diff --git a/app/soapbox/__fixtures__/akkoma-instance.json b/app/soapbox/__fixtures__/akkoma-instance.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4da0dc94d
--- /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/components/sidebar-navigation-link.tsx b/app/soapbox/components/sidebar-navigation-link.tsx
index d464d6c2f1..9dbd84d678 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/components/sidebar-navigation-link.tsx
+++ b/app/soapbox/components/sidebar-navigation-link.tsx
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ const SidebarNavigationLink = React.forwardRef((props: ISidebarNavigationLink, r
       ref={ref}
       onClick={handleClick}
       className={classNames({
-        'flex items-center px-4 py-3.5 text-base font-semibold space-x-4 rounded-full group text-gray-600 hover:text-primary-600 dark:text-gray-500 dark:hover:text-gray-100 hover:bg-primary-100 dark:hover:bg-primary-700': true,
-        'dark:text-gray-100 text-primary-600': isActive,
+        'flex items-center px-4 py-3.5 text-base font-semibold space-x-4 rounded-full group text-gray-600 hover:text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-500 dark:hover:text-gray-100 hover:bg-primary-200 dark:hover:bg-primary-900': true,
+        'dark:text-gray-100 text-gray-900': isActive,
       })}
     >
       <span className='relative'>
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ const SidebarNavigationLink = React.forwardRef((props: ISidebarNavigationLink, r
           src={icon}
           count={count}
           countMax={countMax}
-          className={classNames('h-5 w-5 group-hover:text-primary-500', {
-            'text-primary-500': isActive,
+          className={classNames('h-5 w-5', {
+            'text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-500 group-hover:text-primary-500 dark:group-hover:text-primary-400': !isActive,
+            'text-primary-500 dark:text-primary-400': isActive,
           })}
         />
       </span>
diff --git a/app/soapbox/locales/whitelist_is.json b/app/soapbox/locales/whitelist_is.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d4f101c7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/soapbox/locales/whitelist_is.json
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[
+]
diff --git a/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts b/app/soapbox/normalizers/__tests__/instance.test.ts
index ab51c9159f..0df95fcb39 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 e137c21651..ff55ef4a52 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 73ce6e1439..f1acc5c569 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);
@@ -208,7 +214,7 @@ const getInstanceFeatures = (instance: Instance) => {
      * Pleroma chats API.
      * @see {@link https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/development/API/chats/}
      */
-    chats: v.software === TRUTHSOCIAL || (v.software === PLEROMA && gte(v.version, '2.1.0')),
+    chats: v.software === TRUTHSOCIAL || (v.software === PLEROMA && gte(v.version, '2.1.0') && v.build !== AKKOMA),
 
     /**
      * Ability to delete a chat.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ee419cf056..e255baf7e8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "dev": "${npm_execpath} run start",
     "build": "npx webpack",
     "jsdoc": "npx jsdoc -c jsdoc.conf.js",
-    "manage:translations": "node ./translationRunner.js",
+    "manage:translations": "npx ts-node ./translationRunner.ts",
     "test": "npx cross-env NODE_ENV=test npx jest",
     "test:coverage": "${npm_execpath} run test --coverage",
     "test:all": "${npm_execpath} run test:coverage && ${npm_execpath} run lint",
diff --git a/translationRunner.js b/translationRunner.ts
similarity index 72%
rename from translationRunner.js
rename to translationRunner.ts
index 26f3b22147..c4994648b1 100644
Binary files a/translationRunner.js and b/translationRunner.ts differ
diff --git a/types/react-intl-translations-manager/index.d.ts b/types/react-intl-translations-manager/index.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92d901d7c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/types/react-intl-translations-manager/index.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+declare module 'react-intl-translations-manager' {
+  import type { MessageDescriptor } from 'react-intl';
+
+  export interface ExtractedDescriptor extends Omit<MessageDescriptor, 'defaultMessage'> {
+    variables: Set<any>,
+    descriptors?: ExtractedDescriptor[],
+    defaultMessage: string,
+  }
+
+  export interface ExtractedMessage {
+    path: string,
+    descriptors: ExtractedDescriptor[],
+  }
+
+  export interface ManageTranslationsConfig {
+    /**
+     * Directory where the babel plugin puts the extracted messages. This path is relative to your projects root.
+     *
+     * example: `src/locales/extractedMessages`
+     */
+    messagesDirectory: string,
+    /**
+     * Directory of the translation files the translation manager needs to maintain.
+     *
+     * example: `src/locales/lang`
+     */
+    translationsDirectory: string,
+    /**
+     * Directory of the whitelist files the translation manager needs to maintain. These files contain the key of translations that have the exact same text in a specific language as the defaultMessage. Specifying this key will suppress `unmaintained translation` warnings.
+     *
+     * example: `Dashboard` in english is also accepted as a valid translation for dutch.
+     *
+     * (optional, default: `translationsDirectory`)
+     */
+    whitelistsDirectory?: string,
+    /**
+     * What languages the translation manager needs to maintain. Specifying no languages actually doesn't make sense, but won't break the translationManager either. (Please do not include the default language, react-intl will automatically include it.)
+     *
+     * example: for `['nl', 'fr']` the translation manager will maintain a `nl.json`, `fr.json`, `whitelist_nl.json` and a w`hitelist_fr.json` file
+     *
+     * (optional, default: `[]`)
+     */
+    languages?: string[],
+    /**
+     * Option to output a single JSON file containing the aggregate of all extracted messages, grouped by the file they were extracted from.
+     *
+     * example:
+     *
+     * ```json
+     * [
+     *   {
+     *     "path": "src/components/foo.json",
+     *     "descriptors": [
+     *       {
+     *         "id": "bar",
+     *         "description": "Text for bar",
+     *         "defaultMessage": "Bar"
+     *       }
+     *     ]
+     *   }
+     * ]
+     * ```
+     *
+     * (optional, default: `false`)
+     */
+    singleMessagesFile?: boolean,
+    /**
+     * If you want the translationManager to log duplicate message ids or not
+     *
+     * (optional, default: `true`)
+     */
+    detectDuplicateIds?: boolean,
+    /**
+     * If you want the translationManager to sort it's output, both json and console output
+     *
+     * (optional, default: `true`)
+     */
+    sortKeys?: boolean,
+    /** (optional, default: `{ space: 2, trailingNewline: false }`)) */
+    jsonOptions?: any,
+    /**
+     * Here you can specify custom logging methods. If not specified a default printer is used.
+     *
+     * Possible printers to configure:
+     *
+     * ```js
+     * const printers = {
+     *   printDuplicateIds: duplicateIds => {
+     *     console.log(`You have ${duplicateIds.length} duplicate IDs`);
+     *   },
+     *   printLanguageReport: report => {
+     *     console.log('Log report for a language');
+     *   },
+     *   printNoLanguageFile: lang => {
+     *     console.log(
+     *       `No existing ${lang} translation file found. A new one is created.`
+     *     );
+     *   },
+     *   printNoLanguageWhitelistFile: lang => {
+     *     console.log(`No existing ${lang} file found. A new one is created.`);
+     *   }
+     * };
+     * ```
+     *
+     * (optional, default: `{}`)
+     */
+    overridePrinters?: any,
+    /**
+     * Here you can specify overrides for the core hooks. If not specified, the default methods will be used.
+     *
+     * Possible overrides to configure:
+     *
+     * ```js
+     * const overrideCoreMethods = {
+     *   provideExtractedMessages: () => {},
+     *   outputSingleFile: () => {},
+     *   outputDuplicateKeys: () => {},
+     *   beforeReporting: () => {},
+     *   provideLangTemplate: () => {},
+     *   provideTranslationsFile: () => {},
+     *   provideWhitelistFile: () => {},
+     *   reportLanguage: () => {},
+     *   afterReporting: () => {}
+     * };
+     * ```
+     */
+    overrideCoreMethods?: any,
+  }
+
+  /** This will maintain all translation files. Based on your config you will get output for duplicate ids, and per specified language you will get the deleted translations, added messages (new messages that need to be translated), and not yet translated messages. It will also maintain a whitelist file per language where you can specify translation keys where the translation is identical to the default message. This way you can avoid untranslated message warnings for these messages. */
+  export default function manageTranslations(config: ManageTranslationsConfig): void;
+
+  /**
+   * This is a `babel-plugin-react-intl` specific helper method. It will read all extracted JSON file for the specified directory, filter out all files without any messages, and output an array with all messages.
+   *
+   * Example output:
+   *
+   * ```js
+   * const extractedMessages = [
+   *   {
+   *     path: 'src/components/Foo.json',
+   *     descriptors: [
+   *       {
+   *         id: 'foo_ok',
+   *         description: 'Ok text',
+   *         defaultMessage: 'OK'
+   *       }
+   *     ]
+   *   }
+   * ];
+   * ```
+   */
+  export function readMessageFiles(messagesDirectory: string): ExtractedMessage[];
+}
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