diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f1b8530689..104fd68c31 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2762,8 +2762,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lemmy_db_schema",
  "lemmy_routes",
  "lemmy_utils",
- "openssl",
- "openssl-probe",
  "opentelemetry 0.17.0",
  "opentelemetry-otlp 0.10.0",
  "pict-rs",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index af34b33185..5f09c867f1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -108,13 +108,11 @@ opentelemetry = { version = "0.17.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.17.2" }
 actix = "0.13"
 ts-rs = { version = "6.2", features = ["serde-compat", "format", "chrono-impl"] }
-rustls = {version = "0.21.1"}
+rustls = "0.21.1"
 rustls-native-certs = "0.6.2"
 futures-util = "0.3.21"
 tokio-postgres = "0.7.8"
 tokio-postgres-rustls = "0.10.0"
-openssl-probe = "0.1.5"
-openssl = "0.10.52"
 
 [dependencies]
 lemmy_api = { workspace = true }
@@ -157,5 +155,3 @@ rustls-native-certs = { workspace = true }
 futures-util = { workspace = true }
 tokio-postgres = { workspace = true }
 tokio-postgres-rustls = { workspace = true }
-openssl-probe = { workspace = true }
-openssl = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 70d87b0f21..79a813c522 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ use lemmy_utils::{error::LemmyError, settings::SETTINGS};
 #[actix_web::main]
 pub async fn main() -> Result<(), LemmyError> {
   init_logging(&SETTINGS.opentelemetry_url)?;
-  openssl_probe::init_ssl_cert_env_vars();
   #[cfg(not(feature = "embed-pictrs"))]
   start_lemmy_server().await?;
   #[cfg(feature = "embed-pictrs")]