diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index 61ca71123f0d52ffab27c2c8621430f50d9cc593..0c320177ddc4354857a55cb6bfb4577d60e24c0a 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   force_ssl if: "Rails.env.production? && ENV['LOCAL_HTTPS'] == 'true'"
 
   include Localized
-  helper_method :current_account
+  helper_method :current_account, :single_user_mode?
 
   rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError, with: :not_found
   rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, with: :not_found
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
     end
   end
 
+  def single_user_mode?
+    @single_user_mode ||= Rails.configuration.x.single_user_mode && Account.first
+  end
+
   def current_account
     @current_account ||= current_user.try(:account)
   end
diff --git a/app/controllers/auth/registrations_controller.rb b/app/controllers/auth/registrations_controller.rb
index 4881c074aa0eb6426ca8022efdb4133a8a68fbb4..f8050afb5c0ffca2cf8ed94a8c7afd4c8fc4e808 100644
--- a/app/controllers/auth/registrations_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/auth/registrations_controller.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class Auth::RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
   end
 
   def check_enabled_registrations
-    redirect_to root_path if Rails.configuration.x.single_user_mode || !Setting.open_registrations
+    redirect_to root_path if single_user_mode? || !Setting.open_registrations
   end
 
   private
diff --git a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
index 65ac106928f8de2e95f15d465b5bbd618adad12e..2d1cf74f03e96e8b89ff3467ca8f120bd34f3214 100644
--- a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class HomeController < ApplicationController
   private
 
   def authenticate_user!
-    redirect_to(Rails.configuration.x.single_user_mode ? account_path(Account.first) : about_path) unless user_signed_in?
+    redirect_to(single_user_mode? ? account_path(Account.first) : about_path) unless user_signed_in?
   end
 
   def find_or_create_access_token
diff --git a/app/views/accounts/show.html.haml b/app/views/accounts/show.html.haml
index 3b0d69dcdfda5404b622b8809e2bc353c138b167..9c4e32e0e9b1149e4f88ea975cb72c0a7505c078 100644
--- a/app/views/accounts/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/accounts/show.html.haml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   %meta{ property: 'og:image:height', content: '120' }/
   %meta{ property: 'twitter:card', content: 'summary' }/
 
-- if !user_signed_in? && !Rails.configuration.x.single_user_mode
+- if !user_signed_in? && !single_user_mode?
   = render partial: 'shared/landing_strip', locals: { account: @account }
 
 .h-feed
diff --git a/app/views/stream_entries/show.html.haml b/app/views/stream_entries/show.html.haml
index 8629467503131ac8a7b36de544a4ce886b841a2a..73a2365f0682c36beec21a6e5d69afaa7ff49eaf 100644
--- a/app/views/stream_entries/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/stream_entries/show.html.haml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
   %meta{ property: 'twitter:card', content: 'summary' }/
 
-- if !user_signed_in? && !Rails.configuration.x.single_user_mode
+- if !user_signed_in? && !single_user_mode?
   = render partial: 'shared/landing_strip', locals: { account: @stream_entry.account }
 
 .activity-stream.activity-stream-headless.h-entry