diff --git a/packages/client/components/state/stores/NotificationOptions.ts b/packages/client/components/state/stores/NotificationOptions.ts
index 641c37ed1..e4112d8ac 100644
--- a/packages/client/components/state/stores/NotificationOptions.ts
+++ b/packages/client/components/state/stores/NotificationOptions.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ export interface MuteState {
   until?: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Which objects in the TypeNotificationOptions that are comparable. Shortcut for the deep equals function.
+ */
+const NotificationComparableObjects: (keyof TypeNotificationOptions)[] = [
+  "channel",
+  "channel_mutes",
+  "server",
+  "server_mutes",
+];
+
 export interface TypeNotificationOptions {
   /**
    * Per-server settings
@@ -292,4 +302,32 @@ export class NotificationOptions extends AbstractStore<
     const value = this.get().channel_mutes[channel.id];
     return !!value && (!value.until || value.until > this.#now());
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Check whether other is equal to stored state.
+   * @param other The other notification object to compare against
+   * @returns Whether other notification object is equal to the stored notification object
+   */
+  equals(other: TypeNotificationOptions): boolean {
+    for (let compI = 0; compI < NotificationComparableObjects.length; compI++) {
+      const comparable = NotificationComparableObjects[compI];
+      const localComparableEntries = Object.entries(
+        this.get()[comparable] || {},
+      );
+      const otherComparable = other[comparable] || {};
+      if (
+        localComparableEntries.length !== Object.keys(otherComparable).length
+      ) {
+        return false;
+      }
+      for (let i = 0; i < localComparableEntries.length; i++) {
+        const entry = localComparableEntries[i];
+        if (entry[1] !== otherComparable[entry[0]]) {
+          return false;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    return true;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/client/components/state/stores/Ordering.ts b/packages/client/components/state/stores/Ordering.ts
index 3e06f924f..be4913754 100644
--- a/packages/client/components/state/stores/Ordering.ts
+++ b/packages/client/components/state/stores/Ordering.ts
@@ -103,4 +103,22 @@ export class Ordering extends AbstractStore<"ordering", TypeOrdering> {
         .sort((a, b) => +b.updatedAt - +a.updatedAt) ?? []
     );
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Check whether other is equal to stored state.
+   * @param other The other ordering object to compare against
+   * @returns Whether other ordering object is equal to stored ordering object
+   */
+  equals(other: TypeOrdering): boolean {
+    const localServers = this.get().servers;
+    if (localServers.length !== other.servers.length) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    for (let i = 0; i < localServers.length; i++) {
+      if (localServers[i] !== other.servers[i]) {
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/client/components/state/stores/Sync.ts b/packages/client/components/state/stores/Sync.ts
index 26b367f18..eb7a988ea 100644
--- a/packages/client/components/state/stores/Sync.ts
+++ b/packages/client/components/state/stores/Sync.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import { Client } from "stoat.js";
 import { State } from "..";
 
 import { AbstractStore } from ".";
+import { TypeNotificationOptions } from "./NotificationOptions";
+import { TypeOrdering } from "./Ordering";
 
 type SynchronisedStores = "ordering" | "notifications";
 
@@ -163,15 +165,22 @@ export class Sync extends AbstractStore<"sync", TypeSynchronisation> {
     if (import.meta.env.DEV)
       console.info(`[sync] merge ${key} at ${ts} with`, data);
 
+    const parsed = this.state[key].clean(JSON.parse(data));
     if (ts > this.ts(key)) {
       // if ts is newer, hydrate the store with it
-      const parsed = this.state[key].clean(JSON.parse(data));
       this.set("revision", key, ts);
       this.#blockSync.add(key);
       this.state.set(key, parsed);
     } else if (ts !== this.ts(key)) {
-      // if ts is old, trigger write to synchronise to remote
-      this.touch(key);
+      // if ts is old, trigger write to synchronise to remote, but only if the data has been updated
+      if (
+        !this.state[key].equals(
+          // We can guarantee that parsed matches the type of this.state[key] due to the clean function call above
+          parsed as TypeOrdering & TypeNotificationOptions,
+        )
+      ) {
+        this.touch(key);
+      }
     }
   }