diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 800aa0240..d6cbfbddd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1961,7 +1961,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lemmy_utils",
  "lemmy_websocket",
  "once_cell",
- "parking_lot 0.12.0",
  "reqwest",
  "reqwest-middleware",
  "serde",
@@ -2076,7 +2075,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lemmy_websocket",
  "opentelemetry 0.17.0",
  "opentelemetry-otlp",
- "parking_lot 0.12.0",
  "reqwest",
  "reqwest-middleware",
  "reqwest-retry",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c3d52425a..407a19ee7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ reqwest-middleware = "0.1.5"
 reqwest-tracing = "0.2.1"
 clokwerk = "0.3.5"
 doku = "0.11.0"
-parking_lot = "0.12.0"
 reqwest-retry = "0.1.5"
 console-subscriber = { version = "0.1.3", optional = true }
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.17.0", features = ["rt-tokio"], optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/apub/Cargo.toml b/crates/apub/Cargo.toml
index 7e8e95281..2714eb8bd 100644
--- a/crates/apub/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/apub/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ anyhow = "1.0.56"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11.10", features = ["json"] }
 html2md = "0.2.13"
 once_cell = "1.10.0"
-parking_lot = "0.12.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 serial_test = "0.6.0"
diff --git a/crates/apub/src/objects/mod.rs b/crates/apub/src/objects/mod.rs
index 7293fc364..8f11f03b1 100644
--- a/crates/apub/src/objects/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/apub/src/objects/mod.rs
@@ -71,10 +71,9 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
     settings::SETTINGS,
   };
   use lemmy_websocket::{chat_server::ChatServer, LemmyContext};
-  use parking_lot::Mutex;
   use reqwest::{Client, Request, Response};
   use reqwest_middleware::{ClientBuilder, Middleware, Next};
-  use std::sync::Arc;
+  use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
   use task_local_extensions::Extensions;
 
   struct BlockedMiddleware;
diff --git a/crates/utils/src/rate_limit/mod.rs b/crates/utils/src/rate_limit/mod.rs
index f8acc3aff..79bdbb1d8 100644
--- a/crates/utils/src/rate_limit/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/utils/src/rate_limit/mod.rs
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ use actix_web::{
   HttpResponse,
 };
 use futures::future::{ok, Ready};
-use parking_lot::Mutex;
 use rate_limiter::{RateLimitType, RateLimiter};
 use std::{
   future::Future,
   pin::Pin,
   rc::Rc,
-  sync::Arc,
+  sync::{Arc, Mutex},
   task::{Context, Poll},
 };
 
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ impl RateLimited {
       RateLimitType::Comment => (rate_limit.comment, rate_limit.comment_per_second),
       RateLimitType::Search => (rate_limit.search, rate_limit.search_per_second),
     };
-    let mut limiter = self.rate_limiter.lock();
+    let mut limiter = self.rate_limiter.lock().expect("mutex poison error");
 
     limiter.check_rate_limit_full(self.type_, &ip_addr, kind, interval)
   }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 3fc3bbc45..fa771c3de 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -29,12 +29,16 @@ use lemmy_utils::{
   settings::{structs::Settings, SETTINGS},
 };
 use lemmy_websocket::{chat_server::ChatServer, LemmyContext};
-use parking_lot::Mutex;
 use reqwest::Client;
 use reqwest_middleware::ClientBuilder;
 use reqwest_retry::{policies::ExponentialBackoff, RetryTransientMiddleware};
 use reqwest_tracing::TracingMiddleware;
-use std::{env, sync::Arc, thread, time::Duration};
+use std::{
+  env,
+  sync::{Arc, Mutex},
+  thread,
+  time::Duration,
+};
 use tracing_actix_web::TracingLogger;
 
 embed_migrations!();