diff --git a/assets/openapi.json b/assets/openapi.json
index 05474f887..4129af5d2 100644
Binary files a/assets/openapi.json and b/assets/openapi.json differ
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c1942619a..caf3689e7 100644
Binary files a/package-lock.json and b/package-lock.json differ
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 01a705db0..97bc56714 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
 		"@types/multer": "^2.0.0",
 		"@types/murmurhash-js": "^1.0.6",
 		"@types/node": "^24.10.1",
-		"@types/node-fetch": "^2.6.13",
 		"@types/nodemailer": "^7.0.4",
 		"@types/probe-image-size": "^7.2.5",
 		"@types/sharp": "^0.31.1",
@@ -104,11 +103,9 @@
 		"multer": "^2.0.2",
 		"murmurhash-js": "^1.0.0",
 		"node-2fa": "^2.0.3",
-		"node-fetch-commonjs": "^3.3.2",
 		"pg": "^8.16.3",
 		"picocolors": "^1.1.1",
 		"probe-image-size": "^7.2.3",
-		"proxy-agent": "^6.5.0",
 		"reflect-metadata": "^0.2.2",
 		"sqlite3": "^5.1.7",
 		"tslib": "^2.8.1",
diff --git a/scripts/stress/login.js b/scripts/stress/login.js
index 473e2e956..5cb254d16 100644
--- a/scripts/stress/login.js
+++ b/scripts/stress/login.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-const fetch = require("node-fetch");
 const ENDPOINT = process.env.API || "http://localhost:3001";
 
 async function main() {
diff --git a/scripts/stress/users.js b/scripts/stress/users.js
index 053943d01..67fa3ec88 100644
--- a/scripts/stress/users.js
+++ b/scripts/stress/users.js
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 */
 
 require("dotenv").config({ quiet: true });
-const fetch = require("node-fetch");
 const count = Number(process.env.COUNT) || 50;
 const endpoint = process.env.API || "http://localhost:3001";
 
diff --git a/src/api/middlewares/ImageProxy.ts b/src/api/middlewares/ImageProxy.ts
index 814f0e6d4..d87a8de91 100644
--- a/src/api/middlewares/ImageProxy.ts
+++ b/src/api/middlewares/ImageProxy.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import { Config, JimpType } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request, Response } from "express";
 import { yellow } from "picocolors";
 import crypto from "crypto";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 
 let sharp: undefined | false | { default: typeof import("sharp") } = undefined;
 
diff --git a/src/api/routes/channels/#channel_id/attachments.ts b/src/api/routes/channels/#channel_id/attachments.ts
index 2c08931e8..4699fe408 100644
--- a/src/api/routes/channels/#channel_id/attachments.ts
+++ b/src/api/routes/channels/#channel_id/attachments.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import {
 } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request, Response, Router } from "express";
 import { CloudAttachment } from "@spacebar/util";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 import { UploadAttachmentRequestSchema, UploadAttachmentResponseSchema } from "@spacebar/schemas"
 
 const router: Router = Router({ mergeParams: true });
diff --git a/src/api/routes/gifs/search.ts b/src/api/routes/gifs/search.ts
index 378e3981d..199d43da2 100644
--- a/src/api/routes/gifs/search.ts
+++ b/src/api/routes/gifs/search.ts
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ import {
 	parseGifResult,
 } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request, Response, Router } from "express";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
-import { ProxyAgent } from "proxy-agent";
 import http from "http";
 import { TenorGif, TenorMediaTypes } from "@spacebar/schemas"
 
@@ -62,12 +60,9 @@ router.get(
 
 		const apiKey = getGifApiKey();
 
-		const agent = new ProxyAgent();
-
 		const response = await fetch(
 			`https://g.tenor.com/v1/search?q=${q}&media_format=${media_format}&locale=${locale}&key=${apiKey}`,
 			{
-				agent: agent as http.Agent,
 				method: "get",
 				headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
 			},
diff --git a/src/api/routes/gifs/trending-gifs.ts b/src/api/routes/gifs/trending-gifs.ts
index 48c2a3bf6..8de10650a 100644
--- a/src/api/routes/gifs/trending-gifs.ts
+++ b/src/api/routes/gifs/trending-gifs.ts
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ import {
 	parseGifResult,
 } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request, Response, Router } from "express";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
-import { ProxyAgent } from "proxy-agent";
-import http from "http";
 import { TenorGif, TenorMediaTypes } from "@spacebar/schemas"
 
 const router = Router({ mergeParams: true });
@@ -57,12 +54,9 @@ router.get(
 
 		const apiKey = getGifApiKey();
 
-		const agent = new ProxyAgent();
-
 		const response = await fetch(
 			`https://g.tenor.com/v1/trending?media_format=${media_format}&locale=${locale}&key=${apiKey}`,
 			{
-				agent: agent as http.Agent,
 				method: "get",
 				headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
 			},
diff --git a/src/api/routes/gifs/trending.ts b/src/api/routes/gifs/trending.ts
index bcbd450dc..59314afb2 100644
--- a/src/api/routes/gifs/trending.ts
+++ b/src/api/routes/gifs/trending.ts
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ import {
 	parseGifResult,
 } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request, Response, Router } from "express";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
-import { ProxyAgent } from "proxy-agent";
-import http from "http";
 import { TenorCategoriesResults, TenorTrendingResults } from "@spacebar/schemas"
 
 const router = Router({ mergeParams: true });
@@ -52,13 +49,10 @@ router.get(
 
 		const apiKey = getGifApiKey();
 
-		const agent = new ProxyAgent();
-
 		const [responseSource, trendGifSource] = await Promise.all([
 			fetch(
 				`https://g.tenor.com/v1/categories?locale=${locale}&key=${apiKey}`,
 				{
-					agent: agent as http.Agent,
 					method: "get",
 					headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
 				},
@@ -66,7 +60,6 @@ router.get(
 			fetch(
 				`https://g.tenor.com/v1/trending?locale=${locale}&key=${apiKey}`,
 				{
-					agent: agent as http.Agent,
 					method: "get",
 					headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
 				},
diff --git a/src/api/routes/guilds/templates/index.ts b/src/api/routes/guilds/templates/index.ts
index 7937e9831..d5950a463 100644
--- a/src/api/routes/guilds/templates/index.ts
+++ b/src/api/routes/guilds/templates/index.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import { route } from "@spacebar/api";
 import { Config, DiscordApiErrors, Guild, Member, Template } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request, Response, Router } from "express";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 import { HTTPError } from "lambert-server";
 import { GuildTemplateCreateSchema } from "@spacebar/schemas"
 
diff --git a/src/api/util/handlers/Message.ts b/src/api/util/handlers/Message.ts
index fd1630149..828576abe 100644
--- a/src/api/util/handlers/Message.ts
+++ b/src/api/util/handlers/Message.ts
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ import {
 } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { HTTPError } from "lambert-server";
 import { In, Or, Equal, IsNull } from "typeorm";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 import { ChannelType, Embed, EmbedType, MessageCreateAttachment, MessageCreateCloudAttachment, MessageCreateSchema, MessageType, Reaction } from "@spacebar/schemas";
 const allow_empty = false;
 // TODO: check webhook, application, system author, stickers
@@ -206,7 +205,7 @@ export async function handleMessage(opts: MessageOptions): Promise<Message> {
 		}
 		if (opts.avatar_url) {
 			const avatarData = await fetch(opts.avatar_url);
-			const base64 = await avatarData.buffer().then((x) => x.toString("base64"));
+			const base64 = await avatarData.text().then((x) => btoa(x));
 
 			const dataUri = "data:" + avatarData.headers.get("content-type") + ";base64," + base64;
 
diff --git a/src/api/util/utility/EmbedHandlers.ts b/src/api/util/utility/EmbedHandlers.ts
index f93df3e2d..96fbe1c95 100644
--- a/src/api/util/utility/EmbedHandlers.ts
+++ b/src/api/util/utility/EmbedHandlers.ts
@@ -20,19 +20,16 @@ import { Config }from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Embed, EmbedImage, EmbedType } from "@spacebar/schemas";
 import * as cheerio from "cheerio";
 import crypto from "crypto";
-import fetch, { RequestInit } from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 import { yellow } from "picocolors";
 import probe from "probe-image-size";
 
 export const DEFAULT_FETCH_OPTIONS: RequestInit = {
 	redirect: "follow",
-	follow: 1,
 	headers: {
 		"user-agent":
 			"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Spacebar/1.0; +https://github.com/spacebarchat/server)",
 	},
 	// size: 1024 * 1024 * 5, 	// grabbed from config later
-	compress: true,
 	method: "GET",
 };
 
@@ -130,10 +127,16 @@ export const getMetaDescriptions = (text: string) => {
 
 const doFetch = async (url: URL) => {
 	try {
-		return await fetch(url, {
+		const res = await fetch(url, {
 			...DEFAULT_FETCH_OPTIONS,
-			size: Config.get().limits.message.maxEmbedDownloadSize,
 		});
+		if (res.headers.get("content-length")) {
+			const contentLength = parseInt(res.headers.get("content-length")!);
+			if (Config.get().limits.message.maxEmbedDownloadSize && contentLength > Config.get().limits.message.maxEmbedDownloadSize) {
+				return null;
+			}
+		}
+		return res;
 	} catch (e) {
 		return null;
 	}
diff --git a/src/api/util/utility/captcha.ts b/src/api/util/utility/captcha.ts
index 3c0ac7669..3f654a48d 100644
--- a/src/api/util/utility/captcha.ts
+++ b/src/api/util/utility/captcha.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 */
 
 import { Config } from "@spacebar/util";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 
 export interface hcaptchaResponse {
 	success: boolean;
diff --git a/src/api/util/utility/ipAddress.ts b/src/api/util/utility/ipAddress.ts
index c19c7c352..2609dae12 100644
--- a/src/api/util/utility/ipAddress.ts
+++ b/src/api/util/utility/ipAddress.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import { Config } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Request } from "express";
 // use ipdata package instead of simple fetch because of integrated caching
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 
 const exampleData = {
 	ip: "",
diff --git a/src/util/util/AutoUpdate.ts b/src/util/util/AutoUpdate.ts
index e62a5c508..efd0954e8 100644
--- a/src/util/util/AutoUpdate.ts
+++ b/src/util/util/AutoUpdate.ts
@@ -16,12 +16,9 @@
 	along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
 
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
-import { ProxyAgent } from "proxy-agent";
 import readline from "readline";
 import fs from "fs/promises";
 import path from "path";
-import http from "http";
 
 const rl = readline.createInterface({
 	input: process.stdin,
@@ -74,9 +71,8 @@ async function download(url: string, dir: string) {
 	try {
 		// TODO: use file stream instead of buffer (to prevent crash because of high memory usage for big files)
 		// TODO check file hash
-		const agent = new ProxyAgent();
-		const response = await fetch(url, { agent: agent as http.Agent });
-		const buffer = await response.buffer();
+		const response = await fetch(url);
+		const buffer = await response.bytes();
 		const tempDir = await fs.mkdtemp("spacebar");
 		await fs.writeFile(path.join(tempDir, "Spacebar.zip"), buffer);
 	} catch (error) {
@@ -97,8 +93,7 @@ async function getCurrentVersion(dir: string) {
 
 async function getLatestVersion(url: string) {
 	try {
-		const agent = new ProxyAgent();
-		const response = await fetch(url, { agent: agent as http.Agent });
+		const response = await fetch(url);
 		const content = (await response.json()) as { version: string };
 		return content.version;
 	} catch (error) {
diff --git a/src/util/util/cdn.ts b/src/util/util/cdn.ts
index d5ca9ba9a..01f03fc19 100644
--- a/src/util/util/cdn.ts
+++ b/src/util/util/cdn.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 import FormData from "form-data";
 import { HTTPError } from "lambert-server";
-import fetch from "node-fetch-commonjs";
 import { Attachment } from "../entities";
 import { Config } from "./Config";