diff --git a/mod/photos.php b/mod/photos.php
index a4434f4936..322ddd1599 100644
--- a/mod/photos.php
+++ b/mod/photos.php
@@ -215,14 +215,14 @@ function photos_post(App $a)
 			// get the list of photos we are about to delete
 			if ($visitor) {
 				$r = DBA::toArray(DBA::p(
-					"SELECT distinct(`resource-id`) as `rid` FROM `photo` WHERE `contact-id` = ? AND `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?",
+					"SELECT distinct(`resource-id`) AS `rid` FROM `photo` WHERE `contact-id` = ? AND `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?",
 					$visitor,
 					$page_owner_uid,
 					$album
 				));
 			} else {
 				$r = DBA::toArray(DBA::p(
-					"SELECT distinct(`resource-id`) as `rid` FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?",
+					"SELECT distinct(`resource-id`) AS `rid` FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?",
 					DI::userSession()->getLocalUserId(),
 					$album
 				));
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ function photos_content(App $a)
 
 		$total = 0;
 		$r = DBA::toArray(DBA::p(
-			"SELECT `resource-id`, max(`scale`) AS `scale` FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?
+			"SELECT `resource-id`, MAX(`scale`) AS `scale` FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?
 			AND `scale` <= 4 $sql_extra GROUP BY `resource-id`",
 			$owner_uid,
 			$album
@@ -782,9 +782,9 @@ function photos_content(App $a)
 		}
 
 		$r = DBA::toArray(DBA::p(
-			"SELECT `resource-id`, ANY_VALUE(`id`) AS `id`, ANY_VALUE(`filename`) AS `filename`,
-			ANY_VALUE(`type`) AS `type`, max(`scale`) AS `scale`, ANY_VALUE(`desc`) as `desc`,
-			ANY_VALUE(`created`) as `created`
+			"SELECT `resource-id`, MIN(`id`) AS `id`, MIN(`filename`) AS `filename`,
+			MIN(`type`) AS `type`, MAX(`scale`) AS `scale`, MIN(`desc`) AS `desc`,
+			MIN(`created`) AS `created`
 			FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = ? AND `album` = ?
 			AND `scale` <= 4 $sql_extra GROUP BY `resource-id` ORDER BY `created` $order LIMIT ? , ?",
 			intval($owner_uid),
@@ -1167,11 +1167,11 @@ function photos_content(App $a)
 				}
 
 				if (!empty($conv_responses['like'][$link_item['uri']])) {
-					$like = DI::conversation()->formatActivity($conv_responses['like'][$link_item['uri']]['links'], 'like', $link_item['id']);
+					$like = DI::conversation()->formatActivity($conv_responses['like'][$link_item['uri']]['links'], 'like', $link_item['id'], '', []);
 				}
 
 				if (!empty($conv_responses['dislike'][$link_item['uri']])) {
-					$dislike = DI::conversation()->formatActivity($conv_responses['dislike'][$link_item['uri']]['links'], 'dislike', $link_item['id']);
+					$dislike = DI::conversation()->formatActivity($conv_responses['dislike'][$link_item['uri']]['links'], 'dislike', $link_item['id'], '', []);
 				}
 
 				if (($can_post || Security::canWriteToUserWall($owner_uid))) {
diff --git a/src/Database/DBA.php b/src/Database/DBA.php
index d3ccca101f..d5e5a7e59b 100644
--- a/src/Database/DBA.php
+++ b/src/Database/DBA.php
@@ -132,22 +132,6 @@ class DBA
 		return DI::dba()->connected();
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Replaces ANY_VALUE() function by MIN() function,
-	 * if the database server does not support ANY_VALUE().
-	 *
-	 * Considerations for Standard SQL, or MySQL with ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY (default since 5.7.5).
-	 * ANY_VALUE() is available from MySQL 5.7.5 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/miscellaneous-functions.html
-	 * A standard fall-back is to use MIN().
-	 *
-	 * @param string $sql An SQL string without the values
-	 * @return string The input SQL string modified if necessary.
-	 */
-	public static function anyValueFallback(string $sql): string
-	{
-		return DI::dba()->anyValueFallback($sql);
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * beautifies the query - useful for "SHOW PROCESSLIST"
 	 *
diff --git a/src/Database/Database.php b/src/Database/Database.php
index d7b9a17e9b..c296683d2b 100644
--- a/src/Database/Database.php
+++ b/src/Database/Database.php
@@ -439,28 +439,6 @@ class Database
 		return $connected;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Replaces ANY_VALUE() function by MIN() function,
-	 * if the database server does not support ANY_VALUE().
-	 *
-	 * Considerations for Standard SQL, or MySQL with ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY (default since 5.7.5).
-	 * ANY_VALUE() is available from MySQL 5.7.5 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/miscellaneous-functions.html
-	 * A standard fall-back is to use MIN().
-	 *
-	 * @param string $sql An SQL string without the values
-	 *
-	 * @return string The input SQL string modified if necessary.
-	 */
-	public function anyValueFallback(string $sql): string
-	{
-		$server_info = $this->serverInfo();
-		if (version_compare($server_info, '5.7.5', '<') ||
-			(stripos($server_info, 'MariaDB') !== false)) {
-			$sql = str_ireplace('ANY_VALUE(', 'MIN(', $sql);
-		}
-		return $sql;
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Replaces the ? placeholders with the parameters in the $args array
 	 *
@@ -532,7 +510,6 @@ class Database
 		}
 
 		$sql = DBA::cleanQuery($sql);
-		$sql = $this->anyValueFallback($sql);
 
 		$orig_sql = $sql;
 
@@ -1440,7 +1417,7 @@ class Database
 	private function escapeFields(array $fields, array $options): array
 	{
 		// In the case of a "GROUP BY" we have to add all the ORDER fields to the fieldlist.
-		// This needs to done to apply the "ANY_VALUE(...)" treatment from below to them.
+		// This needs to done to apply the "MIN(...)" treatment from below to them.
 		// Otherwise MySQL would report errors.
 		if (!empty($options['group_by']) && !empty($options['order'])) {
 			foreach ($options['order'] as $key => $field) {
@@ -1461,7 +1438,7 @@ class Database
 			$value = DBA::quoteIdentifier($field);
 
 			if (!empty($options['group_by']) && !in_array($field, $options['group_by'])) {
-				$value = 'ANY_VALUE(' . $value . ') AS ' . $value;
+				$value = 'MIN(' . $value . ') AS ' . $value;
 			}
 		});
 
diff --git a/src/Model/Photo.php b/src/Model/Photo.php
index d10d70b8eb..6e5773d363 100644
--- a/src/Model/Photo.php
+++ b/src/Model/Photo.php
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ class Photo
 
 		return DBA::toArray(
 			DBA::p(
-				"SELECT `resource-id`, ANY_VALUE(`id`) AS `id`, ANY_VALUE(`filename`) AS `filename`, ANY_VALUE(`type`) AS `type`,
-					min(`scale`) AS `hiq`, max(`scale`) AS `loq`, ANY_VALUE(`desc`) AS `desc`, ANY_VALUE(`created`) AS `created`
+				"SELECT `resource-id`, MIN(`id`) AS `id`, MIN(`filename`) AS `filename`, MIN(`type`) AS `type`,
+					min(`scale`) AS `hiq`, max(`scale`) AS `loq`, MIN(`desc`) AS `desc`, MIN(`created`) AS `created`
 					FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = ? AND NOT `photo-type` IN (?, ?) $sqlExtra
 					GROUP BY `resource-id` $sqlExtra2",
 				$values
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ class Photo
 			if (!DI::config()->get('system', 'no_count', false)) {
 				/// @todo This query needs to be renewed. It is really slow
 				// At this time we just store the data in the cache
-				$albums = DBA::toArray(DBA::p("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT `resource-id`) AS `total`, `album`, ANY_VALUE(`created`) AS `created`
+				$albums = DBA::toArray(DBA::p("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT `resource-id`) AS `total`, `album`, MIN(`created`) AS `created`
 					FROM `photo`
 					WHERE `uid` = ? AND `photo-type` IN (?, ?, ?) $sql_extra
 					GROUP BY `album` ORDER BY `created` DESC",
diff --git a/src/Module/Admin/Federation.php b/src/Module/Admin/Federation.php
index 58b4878fc6..af7e433e14 100644
--- a/src/Module/Admin/Federation.php
+++ b/src/Module/Admin/Federation.php
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class Federation extends BaseAdmin
 			SUM(IFNULL(`local-posts`, 0) + IFNULL(`local-comments`, 0)) AS `posts`,
 			SUM(IFNULL(`active-month-users`, `active-week-users`)) AS `month`,
 			SUM(IFNULL(`active-halfyear-users`, `active-week-users`)) AS `halfyear`, `platform`,
-			ANY_VALUE(`network`) AS `network`, MAX(`version`) AS `version`
+			MIN(`network`) AS `network`, MAX(`version`) AS `version`
 			FROM `gserver` WHERE NOT `failed` AND `platform` != ? AND `detection-method` != ? AND NOT `network` IN (?, ?) GROUP BY `platform`",
 				'', GServer::DETECT_MANUAL, Protocol::PHANTOM, Protocol::FEED);
 		while ($gserver = DBA::fetch($gservers)) {
diff --git a/src/Module/Profile/Photos.php b/src/Module/Profile/Photos.php
index f80c63d1a4..8b915a4eba 100644
--- a/src/Module/Profile/Photos.php
+++ b/src/Module/Profile/Photos.php
@@ -322,12 +322,12 @@ class Photos extends \Friendica\Module\BaseProfile
 		$photos = $this->database->toArray($this->database->p(
 			"SELECT
 				`resource-id`,
-				ANY_VALUE(`id`) AS `id`,
-				ANY_VALUE(`filename`) AS `filename`,
-				ANY_VALUE(`type`) AS `type`,
-				ANY_VALUE(`album`) AS `album`,
-				max(`scale`) AS `scale`,
-				ANY_VALUE(`created`) AS `created`
+				MIN(`id`) AS `id`,
+				MIN(`filename`) AS `filename`,
+				MIN(`type`) AS `type`,
+				MIN(`album`) AS `album`,
+				MAX(`scale`) AS `scale`,
+				MIN(`created`) AS `created`
 			FROM `photo`
 			WHERE `uid` = ?
 			  AND `photo-type` = ?
diff --git a/view/lang/C/messages.po b/view/lang/C/messages.po
index 76cd7655c4..72b7cadf39 100644
--- a/view/lang/C/messages.po
+++ b/view/lang/C/messages.po
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: 2024.03-dev\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-01-14 07:50+0000\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-01-15 16:52+0000\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "All pending post updates are done."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:158 src/Console/User.php:245
+#: src/Console/User.php:158 src/Console/User.php:246
 msgid "Enter user nickname: "
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -980,44 +980,48 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Password changed."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:237
+#: src/Console/User.php:238
 msgid "Enter user name: "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:253
+#: src/Console/User.php:254
 msgid "Enter user email address: "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:261
+#: src/Console/User.php:262
 msgid "Enter a language (optional): "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:286
+#: src/Console/User.php:267
+msgid "Enter URL of an image to use as avatar (optional): "
+msgstr ""
+
+#: src/Console/User.php:292
 msgid "User is not pending."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:318
+#: src/Console/User.php:324
 msgid "User has already been marked for deletion."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:323
+#: src/Console/User.php:329
 #, php-format
 msgid "Type \"yes\" to delete %s"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:325
+#: src/Console/User.php:331
 msgid "Deletion aborted."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:450
+#: src/Console/User.php:456
 msgid "Enter category: "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:460
+#: src/Console/User.php:466
 msgid "Enter key: "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Console/User.php:494
+#: src/Console/User.php:500
 msgid "Enter value: "
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -3785,7 +3789,7 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Profile Photos"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1582
+#: src/Model/User.php:1584
 #, php-format
 msgid ""
 "\n"
@@ -3793,7 +3797,7 @@ msgid ""
 "\t\t\tthe administrator of %2$s has set up an account for you."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1585
+#: src/Model/User.php:1587
 #, php-format
 msgid ""
 "\n"
@@ -3829,12 +3833,12 @@ msgid ""
 "\t\tThank you and welcome to %4$s."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1617 src/Model/User.php:1723
+#: src/Model/User.php:1619 src/Model/User.php:1725
 #, php-format
 msgid "Registration details for %s"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1637
+#: src/Model/User.php:1639
 #, php-format
 msgid ""
 "\n"
@@ -3850,12 +3854,12 @@ msgid ""
 "\t\t"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1656
+#: src/Model/User.php:1658
 #, php-format
 msgid "Registration at %s"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1680
+#: src/Model/User.php:1682
 #, php-format
 msgid ""
 "\n"
@@ -3864,7 +3868,7 @@ msgid ""
 "\t\t\t"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1688
+#: src/Model/User.php:1690
 #, php-format
 msgid ""
 "\n"
@@ -3902,7 +3906,7 @@ msgid ""
 "\t\t\tThank you and welcome to %2$s."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Model/User.php:1750
+#: src/Model/User.php:1752
 msgid ""
 "User with delegates can't be removed, please remove delegate users first"
 msgstr ""