diff --git a/app/lib/activitypub/dereferencer.rb b/app/lib/activitypub/dereferencer.rb
index eb99842828c..01798aa4314 100644
--- a/app/lib/activitypub/dereferencer.rb
+++ b/app/lib/activitypub/dereferencer.rb
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ActivityPub::Dereferencer
 
     req = Request.new(:get, uri)
 
-    req.add_headers('Accept' => 'application/activity+json, application/ld+json')
+    req.add_headers('Accept' => 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", application/activity+json, application/ld+json')
     req.add_headers(headers) if headers
     req.on_behalf_of(@signature_actor) if @signature_actor
 
diff --git a/app/services/fetch_resource_service.rb b/app/services/fetch_resource_service.rb
index 84c36f6a101..c8d769bf768 100644
--- a/app/services/fetch_resource_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/fetch_resource_service.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 class FetchResourceService < BaseService
   include JsonLdHelper
 
-  ACCEPT_HEADER = 'application/activity+json, application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", text/html;q=0.1'
+  ACCEPT_HEADER = 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", application/activity+json, text/html;q=0.1'
   ACTIVITY_STREAM_LINK_TYPES = ['application/activity+json', 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'].freeze
 
   attr_reader :response_code