diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 461a6cc84..ca0598f82 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ opentelemetry = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 console-subscriber = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
 opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.12.0", optional = true }
 pict-rs = { version = "0.5.15", optional = true }
+rustls = { workspace = true }
 tokio.workspace = true
 actix-cors = "0.7.0"
 futures-util = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs b/crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs
index ec9f9ded7..bcddce19b 100644
--- a/crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs
+++ b/crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs
@@ -327,10 +327,6 @@ fn establish_connection(config: &str) -> BoxFuture<ConnectionResult<AsyncPgConne
   let fut = async {
     // We only support TLS with sslmode=require currently
     let mut conn = if config.contains("sslmode=require") {
-      rustls::crypto::ring::default_provider()
-        .install_default()
-        .expect("Failed to install rustls crypto provider");
-
       let rustls_config = DangerousClientConfigBuilder {
         cfg: ClientConfig::builder(),
       }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index dd17d6eb8..d7244d2d6 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -2,11 +2,17 @@ use clap::Parser;
 use lemmy_server::{init_logging, start_lemmy_server, CmdArgs};
 use lemmy_utils::{error::LemmyResult, settings::SETTINGS};
 
+pub extern crate rustls;
+
 #[tokio::main]
 pub async fn main() -> LemmyResult<()> {
   init_logging(&SETTINGS.opentelemetry_url)?;
   let args = CmdArgs::parse();
 
+  rustls::crypto::ring::default_provider()
+    .install_default()
+    .expect("Failed to install rustls crypto provider");
+
   #[cfg(not(feature = "embed-pictrs"))]
   start_lemmy_server(args).await?;
   #[cfg(feature = "embed-pictrs")]