diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 705cd6c..5f6a745 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ serde-inline-default = "0.1" # TODO this hopefully won't be needed anymore soon
 async-trait = "0.1"
 html-escape = "0.2"
 clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive", "cargo"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.35", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.35" }
 axum = "0.7"
 # db providers
 sqlx = { version = "0.7", features = ["runtime-tokio", "tls-rustls", "any"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 21060d3..add7ced 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ enum CliAction {
 	},
 }
 
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn main() {
+async fn launch() {
 	let args = CliArgs::parse();
 
 	tracing_subscriber::fmt::fmt()
@@ -160,6 +159,14 @@ async fn main() {
 	}
 }
 
+fn main() {
+	tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
+		.build().expect("could not create tokio runtime")
+		.block_on(async {
+			launch().await
+		});
+}
+
 // it drives me nuts that it doesn't do it by default!!! is there an option?
 fn if_using_sqlite_driver_and_file_is_missing_create_it_beforehand(uri: &str) {
 	use std::str::FromStr;
@@ -172,5 +179,4 @@ fn if_using_sqlite_driver_and_file_is_missing_create_it_beforehand(uri: &str) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-
 }