diff --git a/app/controllers/api_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api_controller.rb
index c550b38e8e4d4ea346ce1cab8e1633bcd8df481d..4ccf20bc97c0331ca336e27d6d055dd80edfda2f 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api_controller.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ class ApiController < ApplicationController
     render json: { error: 'Remote data could not be fetched' }, status: 503
   end
 
+  rescue_from OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError do
+    render json: { error: 'Remote SSL certificate could not be verified' }, status: 503
+  end
+
   protected
 
   def current_resource_owner
diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index c8d7e2084ccf8a99ea2533196712cdaf57a5bb17..1f991cf6720723cbe98249bfe0c58c094b596d1c 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
     end
   end
 
+  def gone
+    respond_to do |format|
+      format.any { head 410 }
+    end
+  end
+
   def current_account
     current_user.try(:account)
   end
diff --git a/app/controllers/stream_entries_controller.rb b/app/controllers/stream_entries_controller.rb
index e1b664b08a191fbda2539a1adfd41d12f100907c..a364fa01c4f96c7227aa7e1dba1feceb31817e9f 100644
--- a/app/controllers/stream_entries_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/stream_entries_controller.rb
@@ -8,13 +8,16 @@ class StreamEntriesController < ApplicationController
   def show
     @type = @stream_entry.activity_type.downcase
 
-    if @stream_entry.activity_type == 'Status'
-      @ancestors   = @stream_entry.activity.ancestors
-      @descendants = @stream_entry.activity.descendants
-    end
-
     respond_to do |format|
-      format.html
+      format.html do
+        return gone if @stream_entry.activity.nil?
+
+        if @stream_entry.activity_type == 'Status'
+          @ancestors   = @stream_entry.activity.ancestors
+          @descendants = @stream_entry.activity.descendants
+        end
+      end
+
       format.atom
     end
   end
diff --git a/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb
index 4be7f6355791b6ff4127a3431cf5122bb94cc677..f2625dcaa3133721b2684470be70e3babb3c804d 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_atom_service.rb
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ class FetchAtomService < BaseService
     else
       return process_html(fetch(url))
     end
+
+  rescue OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError => e
+    Rails.logger.debug "SSL error: #{e}"
   end
 
   private
diff --git a/app/services/fetch_remote_account_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_remote_account_service.rb
index 5f45f9b2899f979186a9025d01bf2cbe697543dc..83a81a61be3ca75e0d10ecc8e1be43cc9497f610 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_remote_account_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_remote_account_service.rb
@@ -19,5 +19,7 @@ class FetchRemoteAccountService < BaseService
     Rails.logger.debug "Going to webfinger #{username}@#{domain}"
 
     return FollowRemoteAccountService.new.call("#{username}@#{domain}")
+  rescue Nokogiri::XML::XPath::SyntaxError
+    Rails.logger.debug "Invalid XML or missing namespace"
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/services/fetch_remote_status_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_remote_status_service.rb
index 24a63e8414d0cba061a2a1145ccd9dd74a49451e..a507fbeed55001e8a5ea6a57aaca74831224eed4 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_remote_status_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_remote_status_service.rb
@@ -31,5 +31,8 @@ class FetchRemoteStatusService < BaseService
     Rails.logger.debug "Going to webfinger #{username}@#{domain}"
 
     return FollowRemoteAccountService.new.call("#{username}@#{domain}")
+  rescue Nokogiri::XML::XPath::SyntaxError
+    Rails.logger.debug "Invalid XML or missing namespace"
+  end
   end
 end
diff --git a/config/environments/production.rb b/config/environments/production.rb
index ee7598c4cc9eb6f03ec13815594886f3dd07dea7..5e010b2065a2ea389a20c6a1dddcb204be79f778 100644
--- a/config/environments/production.rb
+++ b/config/environments/production.rb
@@ -85,4 +85,6 @@ Rails.application.configure do
   config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
 
   config.react.variant = :production
+
+  config.active_record.logger = nil
 end