diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/prosody.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/prosody.nix
index 0066c77438f41..038d574bd8785 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/prosody.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/prosody.nix
@@ -779,9 +779,6 @@ in
 
       admins = ${toLua cfg.admins}
 
-      -- we already build with libevent, so we can just enable it for a more performant server
-      use_libevent = true
-
       modules_enabled = {
 
         ${ lib.concatStringsSep "\n  " (lib.mapAttrsToList
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/xmpp/prosody/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/xmpp/prosody/default.nix
index 64ac2e8699ad1..0ea58951adbac 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/xmpp/prosody/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/xmpp/prosody/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 , icu
 , lua
 , nixosTests
-, withLibevent ? true
 , withDBI ? true
 # use withExtraLibs to add additional dependencies of community modules
 , withExtraLibs ? [ ]
@@ -16,7 +15,6 @@ let
   luaEnv = lua.withPackages(p: with p; [
       luasocket luasec luaexpat luafilesystem luabitop luadbi-sqlite3 luaunbound
     ]
-    ++ lib.optional withLibevent p.luaevent
     ++ lib.optional withDBI p.luadbi
     ++ withExtraLuaPackages p
   );