diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 23d9c461..63ce31de 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4489,7 +4489,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tower-http",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "url",
  "uuid",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6f39e33c..51887a2b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ mdhtml = { path = "mdhtml", features = ["markdown"] }
 jrd = "0.1"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3"
-url = "2.5"
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 futures = "0.3"
 tokio = { version = "1.35", features = ["full"] } # TODO slim this down
diff --git a/src/server/context.rs b/src/server/context.rs
index c2bf7f20..07c45f62 100644
--- a/src/server/context.rs
+++ b/src/server/context.rs
@@ -105,11 +105,12 @@ impl Context {
 		if id.starts_with("http") { // ready-to-use id
 			id
 		} else if id.starts_with('+') { // compacted id
-			let reconstructed = id
+			// TODO theres already 2 edge cases, i really need to get rid of this
+			id
 				.replace('@', "/")
 				.replace("//", "/@") // oops my method sucks!! TODO
-				.replacen('+', "https://", 1);
-			url::form_urlencoded::byte_serialize(reconstructed.as_bytes()).collect()
+				.replacen('+', "https://", 1)
+				.replace(" ", "%20") // omg wordpress
 		} else { // bare local id
 			format!("{}{}/{}/{}", self.0.protocol, self.0.domain, entity, id)
 		}