diff --git a/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml b/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml
index 9d144ddb4..b54d8e48b 100644
--- a/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ lemmy_db_views = { workspace = true }
 lemmy_db_views_moderator = { workspace = true }
 lemmy_db_views_actor = { workspace = true }
 lemmy_db_schema = { workspace = true }
-lemmy_utils = { workspace = true, features = ["error-type"] }
+lemmy_utils = { workspace = true }
 activitypub_federation = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_with = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/utils/Cargo.toml b/crates/utils/Cargo.toml
index 326cbf2e4..1b9757ff8 100644
--- a/crates/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ workspace = true
 
 [features]
 default = [
-  "error-type",
+  "dep:serde",
+  "dep:strum",
   "dep:serde_json",
   "dep:anyhow",
   "dep:tracing-error",
@@ -53,7 +54,6 @@ default = [
 
 ]
 full = ["default", "dep:ts-rs"]
-error-type = ["dep:serde", "dep:strum"]
 
 [dependencies]
 regex = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/utils/src/error.rs b/crates/utils/src/error.rs
index 0f68d70da..645a288ff 100644
--- a/crates/utils/src/error.rs
+++ b/crates/utils/src/error.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ use strum_macros::{Display, EnumIter};
 use ts_rs::TS;
 
 #[derive(Display, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, EnumIter, Hash)]
-#[cfg_attr(feature = "ts-rs", derive(TS))]
-#[cfg_attr(feature = "ts-rs", ts(export))]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "full", derive(TS))]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "full", ts(export))]
 #[serde(tag = "error", content = "message", rename_all = "snake_case")]
 #[non_exhaustive]
 // TODO: order these based on the crate they belong to (utils, federation, db, api)
diff --git a/crates/utils/src/lib.rs b/crates/utils/src/lib.rs
index 65dbaaa45..e1f350e15 100644
--- a/crates/utils/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -12,17 +12,12 @@ cfg_if! {
     pub mod settings;
     pub mod utils;
     pub mod version;
+    pub use error::LemmyErrorType;
   } else {
     mod error;
   }
 }
 
-cfg_if! {
-    if #[cfg(feature = "error-type")] {
-    pub use error::LemmyErrorType;
-  }
-}
-
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 pub type ConnectionId = usize;
diff --git a/crates/utils/translations b/crates/utils/translations
index c3e61706e..a36865ee8 160000
--- a/crates/utils/translations
+++ b/crates/utils/translations
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit c3e61706e2ff7977db83e964e3010f72cad5e408
+Subproject commit a36865ee8ca3658fea31ba948b67b75a812e84fc