diff --git a/changelog.d/remote-url.fix b/changelog.d/remote-url.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9be84a878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/remote-url.fix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+`remote_url` links to unproxied URL
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex b/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex
index 4b5ac9c3b..c1c695419 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/web/mastodon_api/views/status_view.ex
@@ -602,7 +602,8 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.MastodonAPI.StatusView do
   def render("attachment.json", %{attachment: attachment}) do
     [attachment_url | _] = attachment["url"]
     media_type = attachment_url["mediaType"] || attachment_url["mimeType"] || "image"
-    href = attachment_url["href"] |> MediaProxy.url()
+    href_remote = attachment_url["href"]
+    href = href_remote |> MediaProxy.url()
     href_preview = attachment_url["href"] |> MediaProxy.preview_url()
     meta = render("attachment_meta.json", %{attachment: attachment})
 
@@ -641,7 +642,7 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Web.MastodonAPI.StatusView do
     %{
       id: attachment_id,
       url: href,
-      remote_url: href,
+      remote_url: href_remote,
       preview_url: href_preview,
       text_url: href,
       type: type,