diff --git a/src/routes/activitypub/context.rs b/src/routes/activitypub/context.rs
index 7278018a..42422ea8 100644
--- a/src/routes/activitypub/context.rs
+++ b/src/routes/activitypub/context.rs
@@ -26,13 +26,7 @@ pub async fn page(
 	Query(page): Query<Pagination>,
 	AuthIdentity(auth): AuthIdentity,
 ) -> crate::Result<JsonLD<serde_json::Value>> {
-	let context = if id.starts_with('+') {
-		id.replacen('+', "https://", 1).replace('@', "/")
-	} else if id.starts_with("tag:") {
-		id.clone()
-	} else {
-		url!(ctx, "/context/{id}") // TODO need a better way to figure out which ones are our contexts
-	};
+	let context = ctx.context_id(&id);
 
 	crate::server::builders::paginate(
 		url!(ctx, "/context/{id}/page"),
diff --git a/src/server/context.rs b/src/server/context.rs
index 765d9371..20216227 100644
--- a/src/server/context.rs
+++ b/src/server/context.rs
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ impl Context {
 
 	// TODO remove this!!
 	pub fn context_id(&self, id: &str) -> String {
+		if id.starts_with("tag:") {
+			return id.to_string();
+		}
 		uriproxy::uri(self.base(), UriClass::Context, id)
 	}