diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/federator.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/federator.ex
index 318b6cb11..84b77cda1 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/federator.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/federator.ex
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.Federator do
   alias Pleroma.Activity
   alias Pleroma.Object.Containment
   alias Pleroma.User
-  alias Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.ActivityPub
   alias Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.Transmogrifier
   alias Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.Utils
   alias Pleroma.Web.Federator.Publisher
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.Federator do
 
     # NOTE: we use the actor ID to do the containment, this is fine because an
     # actor shouldn't be acting on objects outside their own AP server.
-    with {_, {:ok, _user}} <- {:actor, ap_enabled_actor(actor)},
+    with {_, {:ok, _user}} <- {:actor, User.get_or_fetch_by_ap_id(actor)},
          nil <- Activity.normalize(params["id"]),
          {_, :ok} <-
            {:correct_origin?, Containment.contain_origin_from_id(actor, params)},
@@ -110,14 +109,4 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.Federator do
         {:error, e}
     end
   end
-
-  def ap_enabled_actor(id) do
-    user = User.get_cached_by_ap_id(id)
-
-    if User.ap_enabled?(user) do
-      {:ok, user}
-    else
-      ActivityPub.make_user_from_ap_id(id)
-    end
-  end
 end