diff --git a/Zotlabs/Lib/Libzot.php b/Zotlabs/Lib/Libzot.php
index be2305c04..3d499bd08 100644
--- a/Zotlabs/Lib/Libzot.php
+++ b/Zotlabs/Lib/Libzot.php
@@ -2096,7 +2096,7 @@ class Libzot {
 
 				$raw_activity = $AS->data;
 
-				$AS = new ActivityStreams($raw_activity['object'], portable_id: $env['sender']);
+				$AS = new ActivityStreams($raw_activity['object']);
 
 				// Store the original activity id and type for later usage
 				$AS->meta['original_id'] = $original_id;
diff --git a/Zotlabs/Module/Tagger.php b/Zotlabs/Module/Tagger.php
index b6067be5e..a88a3b112 100644
--- a/Zotlabs/Module/Tagger.php
+++ b/Zotlabs/Module/Tagger.php
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 namespace Zotlabs\Module;
 
+use App;
 use Zotlabs\Lib\Libsync;
 
 require_once('include/security.php');
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ class Tagger extends \Zotlabs\Web\Controller {
 		}
 
 		$sys = get_sys_channel();
+		$channel = App::get_channel();
 
 		$observer_hash = get_observer_hash();
 		//strip html-tags
@@ -125,10 +127,6 @@ class Tagger extends \Zotlabs\Web\Controller {
 
 		$termlink = html_entity_decode('&#x22d5;') . '[zrl=' . z_root() . '/search?tag=' . urlencode($clean_term) . ']'. $clean_term . '[/zrl]';
 
-		$channel = \App::get_channel();
-
-		$arr = array();
-
 		$arr['owner_xchan'] = $item['owner_xchan'];
 		$arr['author_xchan'] = $channel['channel_hash'];