diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3503a02..9fbc347 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "actix-webfinger",
  "ammonia",
  "anyhow",
- "async-rwlock",
  "awc",
  "background-jobs",
  "base64",
@@ -313,6 +312,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "signature",
  "sled",
  "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
  "toml",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-actix-web",
@@ -340,16 +340,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "event-listener",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "async-rwlock"
-version = "1.3.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "261803dcc39ba9e72760ba6e16d0199b1eef9fc44e81bffabbebb9f5aea3906c"
-dependencies = [
- "async-mutex",
- "event-listener",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "async-stream"
 version = "0.3.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c6913dc..7c57b18 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ actix-webfinger = "0.4.0"
 activitystreams = "0.7.0-alpha.19"
 activitystreams-ext = "0.1.0-alpha.2"
 ammonia = "3.1.0"
-async-rwlock = "1.3.0"
 awc = { version = "3.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["rustls"] }
 base64 = "0.13"
 clap = { version = "4.0.0", features = ["derive"] }
@@ -61,6 +60,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = [
   "env-filter",
   "fmt",
 ] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "sync"] }
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
 
 [dependencies.background-jobs]