diff --git a/database.sql b/database.sql
index 5a8cee23c4..74b7552c30 100644
--- a/database.sql
+++ b/database.sql
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -- ------------------------------------------
 -- Friendica 2023.09-dev (Giant Rhubarb)
--- DB_UPDATE_VERSION 1523
+-- DB_UPDATE_VERSION 1524
 -- ------------------------------------------
 
 
@@ -1834,8 +1834,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `user-contact` (
 	`rel` tinyint unsigned COMMENT 'The kind of the relation between the user and the contact',
 	`info` mediumtext COMMENT '',
 	`notify_new_posts` boolean COMMENT '',
-	`remote_self` boolean COMMENT '',
-	`fetch_further_information` tinyint unsigned COMMENT '',
+	`remote_self` tinyint unsigned COMMENT '0 => No mirroring, 1-2 => Mirror as own post, 3 => Mirror as reshare',
+	`fetch_further_information` tinyint unsigned COMMENT '0 => None, 1 => Fetch information, 3 => Fetch keywords, 2 => Fetch both',
 	`ffi_keyword_denylist` text COMMENT '',
 	`subhub` boolean COMMENT '',
 	`hub-verify` varbinary(383) COMMENT '',
diff --git a/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Entity/LocalRelationship.php b/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Entity/LocalRelationship.php
index 8a9c48745f..4fc7ae3660 100644
--- a/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Entity/LocalRelationship.php
+++ b/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Entity/LocalRelationship.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ use Friendica\Model\Contact;
  * @property-read int    $rel
  * @property-read string $info
  * @property-read bool   $notifyNewPosts
- * @property-read bool   $isRemoteSelf
+ * @property-read int    $remoteSelf
  * @property-read int    $fetchFurtherInformation
  * @property-read string $ffiKeywordDenylist
  * @property-read bool   $subhub
@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ use Friendica\Model\Contact;
  */
 class LocalRelationship extends \Friendica\BaseEntity
 {
+	// Fetch Further Information options, not a binary flag
+	const FFI_NONE        = 0;
+	const FFI_INFORMATION = 1;
+	const FFI_KEYWORD     = 3;
+	const FFI_BOTH        = 2;
+
+	const MIRROR_DEACTIVATED    = 0;
+	const MIRROR_OWN_POST       = 2;
+	const MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE = 3;
+
 	/** @var int */
 	protected $userId;
 	/** @var int */
@@ -67,9 +77,9 @@ class LocalRelationship extends \Friendica\BaseEntity
 	protected $info;
 	/** @var bool */
 	protected $notifyNewPosts;
-	/** @var bool */
-	protected $isRemoteSelf;
-	/** @var int */
+	/** @var int One of MIRROR_* */
+	protected $remoteSelf;
+	/** @var int One of FFI_* */
 	protected $fetchFurtherInformation;
 	/** @var string */
 	protected $ffiKeywordDenylist;
@@ -84,7 +94,7 @@ class LocalRelationship extends \Friendica\BaseEntity
 	/** @var int */
 	protected $priority;
 
-	public function __construct(int $userId, int $contactId, bool $blocked = false, bool $ignored = false, bool $collapsed = false, bool $hidden = false, bool $pending = false, int $rel = Contact::NOTHING, string $info = '', bool $notifyNewPosts = false, bool $isRemoteSelf = false, int $fetchFurtherInformation = 0, string $ffiKeywordDenylist = '', bool $subhub = false, string $hubVerify = '', string $protocol = Protocol::PHANTOM, ?int $rating = null, ?int $priority = null)
+	public function __construct(int $userId, int $contactId, bool $blocked = false, bool $ignored = false, bool $collapsed = false, bool $hidden = false, bool $pending = false, int $rel = Contact::NOTHING, string $info = '', bool $notifyNewPosts = false, int $remoteSelf = self::MIRROR_DEACTIVATED, int $fetchFurtherInformation = self::FFI_NONE, string $ffiKeywordDenylist = '', bool $subhub = false, string $hubVerify = '', string $protocol = Protocol::PHANTOM, ?int $rating = null, ?int $priority = null)
 	{
 		$this->userId                  = $userId;
 		$this->contactId               = $contactId;
@@ -96,7 +106,7 @@ class LocalRelationship extends \Friendica\BaseEntity
 		$this->rel                     = $rel;
 		$this->info                    = $info;
 		$this->notifyNewPosts          = $notifyNewPosts;
-		$this->isRemoteSelf            = $isRemoteSelf;
+		$this->remoteSelf              = $remoteSelf;
 		$this->fetchFurtherInformation = $fetchFurtherInformation;
 		$this->ffiKeywordDenylist      = $ffiKeywordDenylist;
 		$this->subhub                  = $subhub;
diff --git a/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Factory/LocalRelationship.php b/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Factory/LocalRelationship.php
index 455dbe1c3c..54fc86215c 100644
--- a/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Factory/LocalRelationship.php
+++ b/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Factory/LocalRelationship.php
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ class LocalRelationship extends BaseFactory implements ICanCreateFromTableRow
 			$row['rel'] ?? Contact::NOTHING,
 			$row['info'] ?? '',
 			$row['notify_new_posts'] ?? false,
-			$row['remote_self'] ?? false,
-			$row['fetch_further_information'] ?? 0,
+			$row['remote_self'] ?? Entity\LocalRelationship::MIRROR_DEACTIVATED,
+			$row['fetch_further_information'] ?? Entity\LocalRelationship::FFI_NONE,
 			$row['ffi_keyword_denylist'] ?? '',
 			$row['subhub'] ?? false,
 			$row['hub-verify'] ?? '',
diff --git a/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Repository/LocalRelationship.php b/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Repository/LocalRelationship.php
index a80a4f897b..490a84e44d 100644
--- a/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Repository/LocalRelationship.php
+++ b/src/Contact/LocalRelationship/Repository/LocalRelationship.php
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class LocalRelationship extends \Friendica\BaseRepository
 			'rel'                       => $localRelationship->rel,
 			'info'                      => $localRelationship->info,
 			'notify_new_posts'          => $localRelationship->notifyNewPosts,
-			'remote_self'               => $localRelationship->isRemoteSelf,
+			'remote_self'               => $localRelationship->remoteSelf,
 			'fetch_further_information' => $localRelationship->fetchFurtherInformation,
 			'ffi_keyword_denylist'      => $localRelationship->ffiKeywordDenylist,
 			'subhub'                    => $localRelationship->subhub,
diff --git a/src/Model/Contact.php b/src/Model/Contact.php
index 17be0b0cfd..23e1f2cbff 100644
--- a/src/Model/Contact.php
+++ b/src/Model/Contact.php
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ namespace Friendica\Model;
 
 use Friendica\Contact\Avatar;
 use Friendica\Contact\Introduction\Exception\IntroductionNotFoundException;
+use Friendica\Contact\LocalRelationship\Entity\LocalRelationship;
 use Friendica\Content\Conversation as ConversationContent;
 use Friendica\Content\Pager;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
@@ -111,10 +112,14 @@ class Contact
 	 * @}
 	 */
 
-	const MIRROR_DEACTIVATED = 0;
-	const MIRROR_FORWARDED = 1; // Deprecated, now does the same like MIRROR_OWN_POST
-	const MIRROR_OWN_POST = 2;
-	const MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE = 3;
+	/** @deprecated Use Entity\LocalRelationship::MIRROR_DEACTIVATED instead */
+	const MIRROR_DEACTIVATED = LocalRelationship::MIRROR_DEACTIVATED;
+	/** @deprecated Now does the same as MIRROR_OWN_POST */
+	const MIRROR_FORWARDED = 1;
+	/** @deprecated Use Entity\LocalRelationship::MIRROR_OWN_POST instead */
+	const MIRROR_OWN_POST = LocalRelationship::MIRROR_OWN_POST;
+	/** @deprecated Use Entity\LocalRelationship::MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE instead */
+	const MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE = LocalRelationship::MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE;
 
 	/**
 	 * @param array $fields    Array of selected fields, empty for all
diff --git a/src/Model/Item.php b/src/Model/Item.php
index 9028c9f853..a2304056d3 100644
--- a/src/Model/Item.php
+++ b/src/Model/Item.php
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 namespace Friendica\Model;
 
+use Friendica\Contact\LocalRelationship\Entity\LocalRelationship;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
 use Friendica\Core\Hook;
@@ -2333,12 +2334,7 @@ class Item
 			return;
 		}
 
-		$cdata = Contact::getPublicAndUserContactID($item['author-id'], $item['uid']);
-		if (empty($cdata['user']) || ($cdata['user'] != $item['contact-id'])) {
-			return;
-		}
-
-		if (!DBA::exists('contact', ['id' => $cdata['user'], 'remote_self' => Contact::MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE])) {
+		if (!DBA::exists('contact', ['id' => $cdata['user'], 'remote_self' => LocalRelationship::MIRROR_NATIVE_RESHARE])) {
 			return;
 		}
 
@@ -2346,6 +2342,10 @@ class Item
 			return;
 		}
 
+		if (User::getById($item['uid'], ['blocked'])['blocked'] ?? false) {
+			return;
+		}
+
 		Logger::info('Automatically reshare item', ['uid' => $item['uid'], 'id' => $item['id'], 'guid' => $item['guid'], 'uri-id' => $item['uri-id']]);
 
 		self::performActivity($item['id'], 'announce', $item['uid']);
@@ -2353,7 +2353,7 @@ class Item
 
 	public static function isRemoteSelf(array $contact, array &$datarray): bool
 	{
-		if ($contact['remote_self'] != Contact::MIRROR_OWN_POST) {
+		if ($contact['remote_self'] != LocalRelationship::MIRROR_OWN_POST) {
 			return false;
 		}
 
@@ -2380,6 +2380,11 @@ class Item
 			return false;
 		}
 
+		if (User::getById($contact['uid'], ['blocked'])['blocked'] ?? false) {
+			Logger::info('User is blocked', ['contact' => $contact]);
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		$datarray2 = $datarray;
 		Logger::info('remote-self start', ['contact' => $contact['url'], 'remote_self' => $contact['remote_self'], 'item' => $datarray]);
 
@@ -3222,7 +3227,7 @@ class Item
 			$shared_html = substr($s, $pos + strlen(BBCode::SHARED_ANCHOR));
 			$s = substr($s, 0, $pos);
 		}
-	
+
 		$s = self::addGallery($s, $attachments, $item['uri-id']);
 		$s = self::addVisualAttachments($attachments, $item, $s, false);
 		$s = self::addLinkAttachment($item['uri-id'], $attachments, $body, $s, false, $shared_links);
@@ -3628,9 +3633,9 @@ class Item
 			}
 
 			$author = [
-				'uid'     => 0, 
+				'uid'     => 0,
 				'id'      => $item['author-id'],
-				'network' => $item['author-network'], 
+				'network' => $item['author-network'],
 				'url'     => $item['author-link'],
 				'alias'   => $item['author-alias']
 			];
@@ -3721,9 +3726,9 @@ class Item
 
 			if (!empty($plink) && ($item['private'] == self::PRIVATE)) {
 				$author = [
-					'uid'     => 0, 
+					'uid'     => 0,
 					'id'      => $item['author-id'],
-					'network' => $item['author-network'], 
+					'network' => $item['author-network'],
 					'url'     => $item['author-link'],
 					'alias'   => $item['author-alias'],
 				];
diff --git a/src/Module/Contact/Profile.php b/src/Module/Contact/Profile.php
index 2f8daf28e2..090f7cd86a 100644
--- a/src/Module/Contact/Profile.php
+++ b/src/Module/Contact/Profile.php
@@ -283,10 +283,10 @@ class Profile extends BaseModule
 				$localRelationship->fetchFurtherInformation,
 				$this->t('Fetch information like preview pictures, title and teaser from the feed item. You can activate this if the feed doesn\'t contain much text. Keywords are taken from the meta header in the feed item and are posted as hash tags.'),
 				[
-					'0' => $this->t('Disabled'),
-					'1' => $this->t('Fetch information'),
-					'3' => $this->t('Fetch keywords'),
-					'2' => $this->t('Fetch information and keywords')
+					Entity\LocalRelationship::FFI_NONE        => $this->t('Disabled'),
+					Entity\LocalRelationship::FFI_INFORMATION => $this->t('Fetch information'),
+					Entity\LocalRelationship::FFI_KEYWORD     => $this->t('Fetch keywords'),
+					Entity\LocalRelationship::FFI_BOTH        => $this->t('Fetch information and keywords')
 				]
 			];
 		}
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ class Profile extends BaseModule
 			'$remote_self'               => [
 				'remote_self',
 				$this->t('Mirror postings from this contact'),
-				$localRelationship->isRemoteSelf,
+				$localRelationship->remoteSelf,
 				$this->t('Mark this contact as remote_self, this will cause friendica to repost new entries from this contact.'),
 				$remote_self_options
 			],
diff --git a/src/Protocol/Feed.php b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
index fced3526d4..fdfe9be7d5 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/Feed.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ use DOMDocument;
 use DOMElement;
 use DOMXPath;
 use Friendica\App;
+use Friendica\Contact\LocalRelationship\Entity\LocalRelationship;
 use Friendica\Content\PageInfo;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
@@ -566,8 +567,10 @@ class Feed
 				continue;
 			}
 
+			$fetch_further_information = $contact['fetch_further_information'] ?? LocalRelationship::FFI_NONE;
+
 			$preview = '';
-			if (!empty($contact['fetch_further_information']) && ($contact['fetch_further_information'] < 3)) {
+			if (in_array($fetch_further_information, [LocalRelationship::FFI_INFORMATION, LocalRelationship::FFI_BOTH])) {
 				// Handle enclosures and treat them as preview picture
 				foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
 					if ($attachment['mimetype'] == 'image/jpeg') {
@@ -611,7 +614,12 @@ class Feed
 					}
 				}
 
-				$data = PageInfo::queryUrl($item['plink'], false, $preview, ($contact['fetch_further_information'] == 2), $contact['ffi_keyword_denylist'] ?? '');
+				$data = PageInfo::queryUrl(
+					$item['plink'],
+					false,
+					$fetch_further_information == LocalRelationship::FFI_BOTH,
+					$contact['ffi_keyword_denylist'] ?? ''
+				);
 
 				if (!empty($data)) {
 					// Take the data that was provided by the feed if the query is empty
@@ -630,7 +638,7 @@ class Feed
 					// We always strip the title since it will be added in the page information
 					$item['title'] = '';
 					$item['body'] = $item['body'] . "\n" . PageInfo::getFooterFromData($data, false);
-					$taglist = $contact['fetch_further_information'] == 2 ? PageInfo::getTagsFromUrl($item['plink'], $preview, $contact['ffi_keyword_denylist'] ?? '') : [];
+					$taglist = $fetch_further_information == LocalRelationship::FFI_BOTH ? PageInfo::getTagsFromUrl($item['plink'], $preview, $contact['ffi_keyword_denylist'] ?? '') : [];
 					$item['object-type'] = Activity\ObjectType::BOOKMARK;
 					$attachments = [];
 
@@ -662,7 +670,7 @@ class Feed
 					$item['body'] = '[abstract]' . HTML::toBBCode($summary, $basepath) . "[/abstract]\n" . $item['body'];
 				}
 
-				if (!empty($contact['fetch_further_information']) && ($contact['fetch_further_information'] == 3)) {
+				if ($fetch_further_information == LocalRelationship::FFI_KEYWORD) {
 					if (empty($taglist)) {
 						$taglist = PageInfo::getTagsFromUrl($item['plink'], $preview, $contact['ffi_keyword_denylist'] ?? '');
 					}
diff --git a/src/Worker/PollContacts.php b/src/Worker/PollContacts.php
index ba908cb8f3..81ce0f8f0e 100644
--- a/src/Worker/PollContacts.php
+++ b/src/Worker/PollContacts.php
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ class PollContacts
 
 		if (!empty($abandon_days)) {
 			$condition = DBA::mergeConditions($condition,
-				["`uid` != ? AND `uid` IN (SELECT `uid` FROM `user` WHERE NOT `account_expired` AND NOT `account_removed` AND `last-activity` > ?)", 0, DateTimeFormat::utc('now - ' . $abandon_days . ' days')]);
+				["`uid` != ? AND `uid` IN (SELECT `uid` FROM `user` WHERE NOT `blocked` AND NOT `account_expired` AND NOT `account_removed` AND `last-activity` > ?)", 0, DateTimeFormat::utc('now - ' . $abandon_days . ' days')]);
 		} else 	{
 			$condition = DBA::mergeConditions($condition,
-				["`uid` != ? AND `uid` IN (SELECT `uid` FROM `user` WHERE NOT `account_expired` AND NOT `account_removed`)", 0]);
+				["`uid` != ? AND `uid` IN (SELECT `uid` FROM `user` WHERE NOT `blocked` AND NOT `account_expired` AND NOT `account_removed`)", 0]);
 		}
 
 		$contacts = DBA::select('contact', ['id', 'nick', 'name', 'network', 'archive', 'last-update', 'priority', 'rating'], $condition);
diff --git a/static/dbstructure.config.php b/static/dbstructure.config.php
index 74a65e0eaa..970aeb9ccf 100644
--- a/static/dbstructure.config.php
+++ b/static/dbstructure.config.php
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ use Friendica\Database\DBA;
 
 // This file is required several times during the test in DbaDefinition which justifies this condition
 if (!defined('DB_UPDATE_VERSION')) {
-	define('DB_UPDATE_VERSION', 1523);
+	define('DB_UPDATE_VERSION', 1524);
 }
 
 return [
@@ -1826,8 +1826,8 @@ return [
 			"rel" => ["type" => "tinyint unsigned", "comment" => "The kind of the relation between the user and the contact"],
 			"info" => ["type" => "mediumtext", "comment" => ""],
 			"notify_new_posts" => ["type" => "boolean", "comment" => ""],
-			"remote_self" => ["type" => "boolean", "comment" => ""],
-			"fetch_further_information" => ["type" => "tinyint unsigned", "comment" => ""],
+			"remote_self" => ["type" => "tinyint unsigned", "comment" => "0 => No mirroring, 1-2 => Mirror as own post, 3 => Mirror as reshare"],
+			"fetch_further_information" => ["type" => "tinyint unsigned", "comment" => "0 => None, 1 => Fetch information, 3 => Fetch keywords, 2 => Fetch both"],
 			"ffi_keyword_denylist" => ["type" => "text", "comment" => ""],
 			"subhub" => ["type" => "boolean", "comment" => ""],
 			"hub-verify" => ["type" => "varbinary(383)", "comment" => ""],
diff --git a/update.php b/update.php
index 14219bcdcb..980ec721ab 100644
--- a/update.php
+++ b/update.php
@@ -1333,3 +1333,19 @@ function update_1520(): int
 
 	return Update::SUCCESS;
 }
+
+/**
+ * user-contact.remote_self was wrongly declared as boolean, possibly truncating integer values from contact.remote_self
+ *
+ * @return int
+ * @throws Exception
+ */
+function update_1524(): int
+{
+	$contacts = DBA::select('contact', ['uid', 'uri-id', 'remote_self'], ["`uid` != ?", 0]);
+	while ($contact = DBA::fetch($contacts)) {
+		Contact\User::insertForContactArray($contact);
+	}
+
+	return Update::SUCCESS;
+}