diff --git a/src/activitypub/helpers.js b/src/activitypub/helpers.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c77462839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/activitypub/helpers.js
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const request = require('request-promise-native');
+
+const Helpers = module.exports;
+
+Helpers.query = async (id) => {
+	const [username, hostname] = id.split('@');
+	if (!username || !hostname) {
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	// Make a webfinger query to retrieve routing information
+	const response = await request(`https://${hostname}/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:${id}`, {
+		simple: false,
+		resolveWithFullResponse: true,
+		json: true,
+	});
+
+	if (response.statusCode !== 200 || !response.body.hasOwnProperty('links')) {
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	// Parse links to find actor endpoint
+	let actorUri = response.body.links.filter(link => link.type === 'application/activity+json' && link.rel === 'self');
+	if (actorUri.length) {
+		actorUri = actorUri.pop();
+		({ href: actorUri } = actorUri);
+	}
+
+	return { username, hostname, actorUri };
+};
diff --git a/src/activitypub.js b/src/activitypub/index.js
similarity index 63%
rename from src/activitypub.js
rename to src/activitypub/index.js
index 4f4fe7ae37..7bac91ff48 100644
--- a/src/activitypub.js
+++ b/src/activitypub/index.js
@@ -3,11 +3,32 @@
 const { generateKeyPairSync } = require('crypto');
 
 const winston = require('winston');
+const request = require('request-promise-native');
 
-const db = require('./database');
+const db = require('../database');
+const helpers = require('./helpers');
 
 const ActivityPub = module.exports;
 
+ActivityPub.getActor = async (id) => {
+	const { hostname, actorUri: uri } = await helpers.query(id);
+	if (!uri) {
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	const actor = await request({
+		uri,
+		headers: {
+			Accept: 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"',
+		},
+		json: true,
+	});
+
+	actor.hostname = hostname;
+
+	return actor;
+};
+
 ActivityPub.getPublicKey = async (uid) => {
 	let publicKey;
 
diff --git a/src/controllers/accounts/profile.js b/src/controllers/accounts/profile.js
index 1ef9756784..909066da18 100644
--- a/src/controllers/accounts/profile.js
+++ b/src/controllers/accounts/profile.js
@@ -10,12 +10,18 @@ const categories = require('../../categories');
 const plugins = require('../../plugins');
 const privileges = require('../../privileges');
 const accountHelpers = require('./helpers');
+const { getActor } = require('../../activitypub');
 const helpers = require('../helpers');
+const slugify = require('../../slugify');
 const utils = require('../../utils');
 
 const profileController = module.exports;
 
 profileController.get = async function (req, res, next) {
+	if (res.locals.uid === -2) {
+		return profileController.getFederated(req, res, next);
+	}
+
 	const lowercaseSlug = req.params.userslug.toLowerCase();
 
 	if (req.params.userslug !== lowercaseSlug) {
@@ -58,6 +64,32 @@ profileController.get = async function (req, res, next) {
 	res.render('account/profile', userData);
 };
 
+profileController.getFederated = async function (req, res, next) {
+	const { userslug: uid } = req.params;
+	const actor = await getActor(uid);
+	if (!actor) {
+		return next();
+	}
+	// console.log(actor);
+	const { preferredUsername, published, icon, image, name, summary, hostname } = actor;
+
+	const payload = {
+		uid,
+		username: `${preferredUsername}@${hostname}`,
+		userslug: slugify(`${preferredUsername}@${hostname}`),
+		fullname: name,
+		joindate: new Date(published).getTime(),
+		picture: typeof icon === 'string' ? icon : icon.url,
+		uploadedpicture: typeof icon === 'string' ? icon : icon.url,
+		'cover:url': typeof image === 'string' ? image : image.url,
+		'cover:position': '50% 50%',
+		aboutme: summary,
+		aboutmeParsed: summary,
+	};
+
+	res.render('account/profile', payload);
+};
+
 async function incrementProfileViews(req, userData) {
 	if (req.uid >= 1) {
 		req.session.uids_viewed = req.session.uids_viewed || {};
diff --git a/src/middleware/index.js b/src/middleware/index.js
index f8ba614ab2..349178598d 100644
--- a/src/middleware/index.js
+++ b/src/middleware/index.js
@@ -172,7 +172,15 @@ async function expose(exposedField, method, field, req, res, next) {
 	if (!req.params.hasOwnProperty(field)) {
 		return next();
 	}
-	const value = await method(String(req.params[field]).toLowerCase());
+	const param = String(req.params[field]).toLowerCase();
+
+	// potential hostname — ActivityPub
+	if (param.indexOf('@') !== -1) {
+		res.locals[exposedField] = -2;
+		return next();
+	}
+
+	const value = await method(param);
 	if (!value) {
 		next('route');
 		return;