diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/models/account.ts b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/models/account.ts
index 9a774cd2c6..e37c652457 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/models/account.ts
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/models/account.ts
@@ -144,5 +144,10 @@ export function createAccountFromServerJSON(serverJSON: ApiAccountJSON) {
     ),
     note_emojified: emojify(accountJSON.note, emojiMap),
     note_plain: unescapeHTML(accountJSON.note),
+    url:
+      accountJSON.url.startsWith('http://') ||
+      accountJSON.url.startsWith('https://')
+        ? accountJSON.url
+        : accountJSON.uri,
   });
 }