diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b8a6a4f..c485ba2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -2080,6 +2080,9 @@ impl PictRsConfiguration {
     }
 
     /// Run the pict-rs application
+    ///
+    /// This must be called from within a tokio `LocalSet`, which is created by default for
+    /// actix-rt runtimes, and by tokio_uring
     pub async fn run(self) -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
         let PictRsConfiguration { config, operation } = self;
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 7bf001d..5f8ee4d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,24 +1,20 @@
 fn main() -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
-    run()
+    let config = pict_rs::PictRsConfiguration::build_default()?
+        .install_tracing()?
+        .install_metrics()?;
+
+    run(config)
 }
 
 #[cfg(feature = "io-uring")]
-fn run() -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
-    tokio_uring::start(async move {
-        pict_rs::PictRsConfiguration::build_default()?
-            .install_tracing()?
-            .install_metrics()?
-            .run()
-            .await
-    })
+fn run(config: pict_rs::PictRsConfiguration) -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
+    tokio_uring::start(config.run())
 }
 
 #[cfg(not(feature = "io-uring"))]
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn run() -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
-    pict_rs::PictRsConfiguration::build_default()?
-        .install_tracing()?
-        .install_metrics()?
-        .run_on_localset()
-        .await
+fn run(config: pict_rs::PictRsConfiguration) -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
+    tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()?
+        .block_on(config.run())
 }