diff --git a/src/components/emoji_input/suggestor.js b/src/components/emoji_input/suggestor.js
index 6a7dbff9a..72e376648 100644
--- a/src/components/emoji_input/suggestor.js
+++ b/src/components/emoji_input/suggestor.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { useSearchStore } from 'src/stores/search.js'
+import { useUsersStore } from 'src/stores/users.js'
 
 /**
  * suggest - generates a suggestor function to be used by emoji-input
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ export const suggestEmoji = (emojis) => (input, nameKeywordLocalizer) => {
     })
 }
 
-export const suggestUsers = ({ dispatch, state }) => {
+export const suggestUsers = () => {
   // Keep some persistent values in closure, most importantly for the
   // custom debounce to work. Lodash debounce does not return a promise.
   let suggestions = []
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ export const suggestUsers = ({ dispatch, state }) => {
       await debounceUserSearch(noPrefix)
     }
 
-    const newSuggestions = state.users.users
+    const newSuggestions = [...useUsersStore().users.values()]
       .filter(
         (user) =>
           user.screen_name &&