diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex
index 847987de5..a5229f5e4 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex
@@ -26,12 +26,9 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.MastodonAPI.StatusView do
 
   import Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.Visibility, only: [get_visibility: 1, visible_for_user?: 2]
 
-  # This is a naive way to do this, just spawning a process per activity
-  # to fetch the preview. However it should be fine considering
-  # pagination is restricted to 40 activities at a time
   defp fetch_rich_media_for_activities(activities) do
     Enum.each(activities, fn activity ->
-      spawn(fn -> Card.get_by_activity(activity) end)
+      Card.get_by_activity(activity)
     end)
   end
 
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/rich_media/card.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/rich_media/card.ex
index 36a1ae44a..1b0b5a5c2 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/rich_media/card.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/rich_media/card.ex
@@ -93,14 +93,6 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.RichMedia.Card do
     end
   end
 
-  @spec get_by_object(Object.t()) :: t() | nil | :error
-  def get_by_object(object) do
-    case HTML.extract_first_external_url_from_object(object) do
-      nil -> nil
-      url -> get_or_backfill_by_url(url)
-    end
-  end
-
   @spec get_by_activity(Activity.t()) :: t() | nil | :error
   # Fake/Draft activity
   def get_by_activity(%Activity{id: "pleroma:fakeid"} = activity) do