diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index da608e1..1c4b74b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -409,6 +409,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-recursion"
+version = "1.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3b43422f69d8ff38f95f1b2bb76517c91589a924d1559a0e935d7c8ce0274c11"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.58",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-stream"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -1910,6 +1921,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "actix-web",
  "actix-web-prom",
  "anyhow",
+ "async-recursion",
  "async-trait",
  "async_once",
  "chrono",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4b47ca8..d99743c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12.4", features = ["blocking", "json", "multipart"] }
 time = { version = "0.3.36", features = ["serde"] }
 serde_derive = "1.0.201"
 dotenv = "0.15.0"
+async-recursion = "1.1.1"
 
 [dependencies.sea-orm]
 version = "0.12.0"
diff --git a/src/lysand/conversion.rs b/src/lysand/conversion.rs
index e236cd1..8b3ef37 100644
--- a/src/lysand/conversion.rs
+++ b/src/lysand/conversion.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use chrono::{DateTime, TimeZone, Utc};
 use sea_orm::{ActiveModelTrait, ColumnTrait, EntityTrait, QueryFilter, Set};
 use anyhow::{anyhow, Ok};
 use url::Url;
+use async_recursion::async_recursion;
 
 use crate::{database::State, entities::{self, post, prelude, user}, objects::post::Mention, utils::{generate_object_id, generate_user_id}, API_DOMAIN, DB, FEDERATION_CONFIG, LYSAND_DOMAIN};
 
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ pub async fn option_content_format_text(opt: Option<ContentFormat>) -> Option<St
 
     None
 }
-
+#[async_recursion]
 pub async fn db_post_from_url(url: Url) -> anyhow::Result<entities::post::Model> {
     if !url.domain().eq(&Some(LYSAND_DOMAIN.as_str())) {
         return Err(anyhow!("not lysands domain"));
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ pub async fn fetch_note_from_url(url: Url) -> anyhow::Result<super::objects::Not
     let request = req_client.get(url).send().await?;
     Ok(request.json::<super::objects::Note>().await?)
 }
-
+#[async_recursion]
 pub async fn receive_lysand_note(note: Note, db_id: String) -> anyhow::Result<crate::objects::post::Note> {
     let lysand_author: entities::user::Model = db_user_from_url(note.author.clone()).await?;
     let user_res = prelude::User::find_by_id(db_id).one(DB.get().unwrap()).await;
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ pub async fn receive_lysand_note(note: Note, db_id: String) -> anyhow::Result<cr
         } else {
             None
         };
-        let reply_string: Option<String> = if let Some(rep) = note.replies_to {
+        let reply_string: Option<String> = if let Some(rep) = note.replies_to.clone() {
             let note = fetch_note_from_url(rep).await?;
             let fake_rep_url = Url::parse(&format!(
                 "https://{}/apbridge/object/{}",