diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 57bfe99..2937474 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4573,9 +4573,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "libc",
  "mio",
- "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "signal-hook-registry",
  "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
@@ -4924,6 +4922,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha2",
  "sha256",
  "thiserror 2.0.10",
+ "tokio",
  "toml",
  "tracing",
  "uriproxy",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9ff49d1..8007c92 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = "0.3"
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 signal-hook = "0.3"
 signal-hook-tokio = { version = "0.3", features = ["futures-v0_3"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.43", features = ["full"] } # TODO slim this down
+tokio = { version = "1.43", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 sea-orm = { version = "1.1", features = ["sqlx-sqlite", "sqlx-postgres", "runtime-tokio-rustls"] }
 futures = "0.3"
 
diff --git a/upub/core/Cargo.toml b/upub/core/Cargo.toml
index 44464fa..93691bd 100644
--- a/upub/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/upub/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ httpsign = { path = "../../utils/httpsign/" }
 mdhtml = { path = "../../utils/mdhtml/" }
 jrd = "0.1"
 tracing = "0.1"
+tokio = "1.43"
 sea-orm = { version = "1.1", features = ["macros"] }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
 apb = { path = "../../apb", features = ["unstructured", "orm", "did-core", "activitypub-miscellaneous-terms", "activitypub-fe", "activitypub-counters", "litepub", "ostatus", "toot"] }
diff --git a/upub/routes/Cargo.toml b/upub/routes/Cargo.toml
index ddc00ac..6534042 100644
--- a/upub/routes/Cargo.toml
+++ b/upub/routes/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 upub = { path = "../core/" }
 jrd = "0.1"
 tracing = "0.1"
-tokio = { version = "1.43", features = ["full"] } # TODO slim this down
+tokio = "1.43"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
 axum = { version = "0.8", features = ["multipart"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["cors", "trace"] }
diff --git a/upub/worker/Cargo.toml b/upub/worker/Cargo.toml
index 9dd52ee..7dc2baf 100644
--- a/upub/worker/Cargo.toml
+++ b/upub/worker/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 sea-orm = "1.1"
 regex = "1.11"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.43", features = ["full"] } # TODO slim this down
+tokio = { version = "1.43", features = ["time"] }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
 apb = { path = "../../apb", features = ["unstructured", "orm", "activitypub-fe", "activitypub-counters", "litepub", "ostatus", "toot"] }
 mdhtml = { path = "../../utils/mdhtml/" }