diff --git a/app/workers/activitypub/distribution_worker.rb b/app/workers/activitypub/distribution_worker.rb
index 575e110257..125278fa51 100644
--- a/app/workers/activitypub/distribution_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/activitypub/distribution_worker.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 class ActivityPub::DistributionWorker < ActivityPub::RawDistributionWorker
+  # Skip followers synchronization for accounts with a large number of followers,
+  # as this is expensive and people with very large amounts of followers
+  # necessarily have less control over them to begin with
+  MAX_FOLLOWERS_FOR_SYNCHRONIZATION = 25_000
+
   # Distribute a new status or an edit of a status to all the places
   # where the status is supposed to go or where it was interacted with
   def perform(status_id)
@@ -27,6 +32,6 @@ class ActivityPub::DistributionWorker < ActivityPub::RawDistributionWorker
   end
 
   def options
-    { 'synchronize_followers' => @status.private_visibility? }
+    { 'synchronize_followers' => @status.private_visibility? && @account.followers_count < MAX_FOLLOWERS_FOR_SYNCHRONIZATION }
   end
 end