diff --git a/app/templates.py b/app/templates.py
index d519ff2..10e11de 100644
--- a/app/templates.py
+++ b/app/templates.py
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ import timeago  # type: ignore
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  # type: ignore
 from fastapi import Request
 from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
+from loguru import logger
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 from starlette.templating import _TemplateResponse as TemplateResponse
 
 from app import models
 from app.actor import LOCAL_ACTOR
 from app.ap_object import Attachment
+from app.ap_object import Object
 from app.boxes import public_outbox_objects_count
 from app.config import BASE_URL
 from app.config import DEBUG
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ from app.config import VERSION
 from app.config import generate_csrf_token
 from app.config import session_serializer
 from app.database import now
+from app.media import proxied_media_url
 from app.utils.highlight import HIGHLIGHT_CSS
 from app.utils.highlight import highlight
 
@@ -160,10 +163,10 @@ def _update_inline_imgs(content):
     return soup.find("body").decode_contents()
 
 
-def _clean_html(html: str) -> str:
+def _clean_html(html: str, note: Object) -> str:
     try:
         return bleach.clean(
-            _update_inline_imgs(highlight(html)),
+            _replace_custom_emojis(_update_inline_imgs(highlight(html)), note),
             tags=ALLOWED_TAGS,
             attributes=ALLOWED_ATTRIBUTES,
             strip=True,
@@ -194,6 +197,25 @@ def _pluralize(count: int, singular: str = "", plural: str = "s") -> str:
         return singular
 
 
+def _replace_custom_emojis(content: str, note: Object) -> str:
+    idx = {}
+    for tag in note.ap_object.get("tag", []):
+        if tag.get("type") == "Emoji":
+            try:
+                idx[tag["name"]] = proxied_media_url(tag["icon"]["url"])
+            except KeyError:
+                logger.warning(f"Failed to parse custom emoji {tag=}")
+                continue
+
+    for emoji_name, emoji_url in idx.items():
+        content = content.replace(
+            emoji_name,
+            f'<img class="custom-emoji" src="{emoji_url}" title="{emoji_name}" alt="{emoji_name}">',  # noqa: E501
+        )
+
+    return content
+
+
 _templates.env.filters["domain"] = _filter_domain
 _templates.env.filters["media_proxy_url"] = _media_proxy_url
 _templates.env.filters["clean_html"] = _clean_html
diff --git a/app/templates/lookup.html b/app/templates/lookup.html
index d3ff8e6..f1d4835 100644
--- a/app/templates/lookup.html
+++ b/app/templates/lookup.html
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
     {% if ap_object and ap_object.ap_type == "Person" %}
     {{ utils.display_actor(ap_object, actors_metadata) }}
     {% elif ap_object %}
-    {{ utils.display_object(ap_object) }}
+    {{ utils.display_object_expanded(ap_object) }}
     {% endif %}
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/app/templates/utils.html b/app/templates/utils.html
index aaf3df7..da2b9f5 100644
--- a/app/templates/utils.html
+++ b/app/templates/utils.html
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 {{ display_actor(object.actor, {}) }}
 
 <div>
-{{ object.content | clean_html | safe }}
+{{ object.content | clean_html(object) | safe }}
 </div>
 
 <a href="{{ object.url }}">{{ object.ap_published_at | format_date }}</a>
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
             <a href="{{ object.url }}">{{ object.ap_published_at | timeago }}</a>
         </span>
         <div class="activity-main">
-            {{ object.content | clean_html | safe }}
+            {{ object.content | clean_html(object) | safe }}
         </div>
     </div>
   </div>
diff --git a/app/webfinger.py b/app/webfinger.py
index 287b646..59b5199 100644
--- a/app/webfinger.py
+++ b/app/webfinger.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urlparse
 import httpx
 from loguru import logger
 
-from app import activitypub as ap
+from app import config
 
 
 def webfinger(
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ def webfinger(
     for i, proto in enumerate(protos):
         try:
             url = f"{proto}://{host}/.well-known/webfinger"
-            resp = ap.get(url, params={"resource": resource})
+            resp = httpx.get(
+                url,
+                params={"resource": resource},
+                headers={
+                    "User-Agent": config.USER_AGENT,
+                },
+            )
             break
         except httpx.HTTPStatusError as http_error:
             logger.exception("HTTP error")
@@ -48,7 +54,7 @@ def webfinger(
     if is_404:
         return None
 
-    return resp
+    return resp.json()
 
 
 def get_remote_follow_template(resource: str) -> str | None: