diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6edfccc1d..0f7695df5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2586,7 +2586,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lemmy_utils",
  "mime",
  "once_cell",
- "percent-encoding",
  "pretty_assertions",
  "regex",
  "reqwest",
@@ -2878,7 +2877,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "markdown-it",
  "once_cell",
  "openssl",
- "percent-encoding",
  "pretty_assertions",
  "regex",
  "reqwest",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2540d1db8..60e85a193 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ strum_macros = "0.25.3"
 itertools = "0.12.0"
 futures = "0.3.30"
 http = "0.2.11"
-percent-encoding = "2.3.1"
 rosetta-i18n = "0.1.3"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.19.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.19.0" }
diff --git a/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml b/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml
index 9fa8bd330..d9310a58d 100644
--- a/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ full = [
   "lemmy_db_views_actor/full",
   "lemmy_db_views_moderator/full",
   "activitypub_federation",
-  "percent-encoding",
   "encoding",
   "reqwest-middleware",
   "webpage",
@@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ tracing = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 reqwest-middleware = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 regex = { workspace = true }
 rosetta-i18n = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-percent-encoding = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 uuid = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/utils/Cargo.toml b/crates/utils/Cargo.toml
index a60ad42f7..e61d92b78 100644
--- a/crates/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ http = { workspace = true }
 doku = { workspace = true, features = ["url-2"] }
 uuid = { workspace = true, features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 rosetta-i18n = { workspace = true }
-percent-encoding = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true }
 urlencoding = { workspace = true }
 openssl = "0.10.63"