diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 56c834e44d..6d73912579 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ use Friendica\Util\Temporal;
 
 require_once 'include/bbcode.php';
 require_once 'include/text.php';
-require_once 'include/threads.php';
 require_once 'mod/share.php';
 require_once 'include/enotify.php';
 
diff --git a/mod/starred.php b/mod/starred.php
index 364d5c5957..5338b6c1de 100644
--- a/mod/starred.php
+++ b/mod/starred.php
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ use Friendica\Database\DBM;
 use Friendica\Model\Item;
 
 function starred_init(App $a) {
-
-	require_once("include/threads.php");
-
 	$starred = 0;
 
 	if (! local_user()) {
diff --git a/src/Protocol/DFRN.php b/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
index d4ad345626..423f87aa90 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ use HTMLPurifier_Config;
 require_once 'boot.php';
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
 require_once "include/enotify.php";
-require_once "include/threads.php";
 require_once "include/items.php";
 require_once "include/event.php";
 require_once "include/text.php";
diff --git a/src/Protocol/OStatus.php b/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
index d6d6bd152d..8688b5a7f9 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ use DOMDocument;
 use DOMXPath;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/threads.php';
 require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 require_once 'include/bbcode.php';
 require_once 'include/items.php';