diff --git a/app/lib/activitypub/activity/update.rb b/app/lib/activitypub/activity/update.rb
index d94f87676..e22bea2c6 100644
--- a/app/lib/activitypub/activity/update.rb
+++ b/app/lib/activitypub/activity/update.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ class ActivityPub::Activity::Update < ActivityPub::Activity
     @status = Status.find_by(uri: object_uri, account_id: @account.id)
 
     # Ignore updates for old unknown objects, since those are updates we are not interested in
-    return if @status.nil? && object_too_old?
+    # Also ignore unknown objects from suspended users for the same reasons
+    return if @status.nil? && (@account.suspended? || object_too_old?)
 
     # We may be getting `Create` and `Update` out of order
     @status ||= ActivityPub::Activity::Create.new(@json, @account, **@options).perform
diff --git a/app/services/fan_out_on_write_service.rb b/app/services/fan_out_on_write_service.rb
index 64769230b..428077b11 100644
--- a/app/services/fan_out_on_write_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fan_out_on_write_service.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ class FanOutOnWriteService < BaseService
     @account   = status.account
     @options   = options
 
+    return if @status.proper.account.suspended?
+
     check_race_condition!
     warm_payload_cache!