diff --git a/packages/ditto/controllers/api/statuses.ts b/packages/ditto/controllers/api/statuses.ts
index 5b73be9f..252882ff 100644
--- a/packages/ditto/controllers/api/statuses.ts
+++ b/packages/ditto/controllers/api/statuses.ts
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ const zapController: AppController = async (c) => {
   let lnurl: undefined | string;
 
   if (status_id) {
-    target = await getEvent(status_id, { kind: 1, relations: ['author'], signal });
+    target = await getEvent(status_id, { kind: 1, signal });
     const author = target?.author;
     const meta = n.json().pipe(n.metadata()).catch({}).parse(author?.content);
     lnurl = getLnurl(meta);
diff --git a/packages/ditto/interfaces/DittoFilter.ts b/packages/ditto/interfaces/DittoFilter.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index f7f1a9ea..00000000
--- a/packages/ditto/interfaces/DittoFilter.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-import { NostrEvent } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
-import { DittoEvent } from '@/interfaces/DittoEvent.ts';
-
-/** Additional properties that may be added by Ditto to events. */
-export type DittoRelation = Exclude<keyof DittoEvent, keyof NostrEvent>;
diff --git a/packages/ditto/queries.ts b/packages/ditto/queries.ts
index d4f0cb11..a79b2df4 100644
--- a/packages/ditto/queries.ts
+++ b/packages/ditto/queries.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { NostrEvent, NostrFilter, NStore } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { Storages } from '@/storages.ts';
 import { type DittoEvent } from '@/interfaces/DittoEvent.ts';
-import { type DittoRelation } from '@/interfaces/DittoFilter.ts';
 import { hydrateEvents } from '@/storages/hydrate.ts';
 import { fallbackAuthor } from '@/utils.ts';
 import { findReplyTag, getTagSet } from '@/utils/tags.ts';
@@ -13,8 +12,6 @@ interface GetEventOpts {
   signal?: AbortSignal;
   /** Event kind. */
   kind?: number;
-  /** @deprecated Relations to include on the event. */
-  relations?: DittoRelation[];
 }
 
 /**