diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Utilities/TimelineLikeCollectionViewController.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Utilities/TimelineLikeCollectionViewController.swift
index 6cf2ae5b..697e6b35 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Utilities/TimelineLikeCollectionViewController.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Utilities/TimelineLikeCollectionViewController.swift
@@ -211,11 +211,9 @@ extension TimelineLikeCollectionViewController {
 extension TimelineLikeCollectionViewController {
     // apply(_:animatingDifferences:) is marked as nonisolated, so just awaiting it doesn't dispatch to the main thread, unlike other async @MainActor methods
     // but we always want to update the data source on the main thread for consistency, so this method does that
+    @MainActor
     func apply(_ snapshot: NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot<Section, Item>, animatingDifferences: Bool) async {
-        let task = Task { @MainActor in
-            self.dataSource.apply(snapshot, animatingDifferences: animatingDifferences)
-        }
-        await task.value
+        await self.dataSource.apply(snapshot, animatingDifferences: animatingDifferences)
     }
     
     @MainActor