diff --git a/changelog.d/featured-collection-shouldnt-break-user-fetch.fix b/changelog.d/featured-collection-shouldnt-break-user-fetch.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e8ce288cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/featured-collection-shouldnt-break-user-fetch.fix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix user fetch completely broken if featured collection is not in a supported form
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex
index 1a10aef1d..c93288b79 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub.ex
@@ -1720,6 +1720,11 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.ActivityPub do
     end)
   end
 
+  def pin_data_from_featured_collection(obj) do
+    Logger.error("Could not parse featured collection #{inspect(obj)}")
+    %{}
+  end
+
   def fetch_and_prepare_featured_from_ap_id(nil) do
     {:ok, %{}}
   end
diff --git a/test/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs b/test/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs
index 54fc6ef0a..1e8c14043 100644
--- a/test/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs
+++ b/test/pleroma/web/activity_pub/activity_pub_test.exs
@@ -2652,4 +2652,12 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.ActivityPubTest do
     {:ok, user} = ActivityPub.make_user_from_ap_id("https://princess.cat/users/mewmew")
     assert user.name == " "
   end
+
+  test "pin_data_from_featured_collection will ignore unsupported values" do
+    assert %{} ==
+             ActivityPub.pin_data_from_featured_collection(%{
+               "type" => "OrderedCollection",
+               "first" => "https://social.example/users/alice/collections/featured?page=true"
+             })
+  end
 end