diff --git a/include/diaspora.php b/include/diaspora.php
index a23c11bd21..0b2add337f 100755
--- a/include/diaspora.php
+++ b/include/diaspora.php
@@ -2257,12 +2257,13 @@ function diaspora_send_followup($item,$owner,$contact,$public_batch = false) {
 	$myaddr = $owner['nickname'] . '@' .  substr($a->get_baseurl(), strpos($a->get_baseurl(),'://') + 3);
 //	$theiraddr = $contact['addr'];
 
-	if($item['thr-parent']) {
+	// Diaspora doesn't support threaded comments
+	/*if($item['thr-parent']) {
 		$p = q("select guid, type, uri, `parent-uri` from item where uri = '%s' limit 1",
 		        dbesc($item['thr-parent'])
 		      );
 	}
-	else {
+	else {*/
 		// The first item in the `item` table with the parent id is the parent. However, MySQL doesn't always
 		// return the items ordered by `item`.`id`, in which case the wrong item is chosen as the parent.
 		// The only item with `parent` and `id` as the parent id is the parent item.
@@ -2270,7 +2271,7 @@ function diaspora_send_followup($item,$owner,$contact,$public_batch = false) {
 			intval($item['parent']),
 			intval($item['parent'])
 		);
-	}
+	//}
 	if(count($p))
 		$parent = $p[0];
 	else