diff --git a/src/Protocol/Feed.php b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
index 5738c01d8a..f137bd2349 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/Feed.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ class Feed
 		XML::addElement($doc, $entry, "id", $item["uri"]);
 		XML::addElement($doc, $entry, "title", html_entity_decode($title, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
 
-		$body = OStatus::formatPicturePost($item['body']);
+		$body = OStatus::formatPicturePost($item['body'], $item['uri-id']);
 
 		$body = BBCode::convert($body, false, BBCode::OSTATUS);
 
diff --git a/src/Protocol/OStatus.php b/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
index 1019d34cc7..869213ade2 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ class OStatus
 	 * @return string The cleaned body
 	 * @throws \Friendica\Network\HTTPException\InternalServerErrorException
 	 */
-	public static function formatPicturePost($body)
+	public static function formatPicturePost($body, $uriid)
 	{
 		$siteinfo = BBCode::getAttachedData($body);
 
@@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ class OStatus
 			}
 
 			// Is it a remote picture? Then make a smaller preview here
-			$preview = ProxyUtils::proxifyUrl($preview, ProxyUtils::SIZE_SMALL);
+			$preview = Post\Link::getByLink($uriid, $preview, ProxyUtils::SIZE_SMALL);
 
 			// Is it a local picture? Then make it smaller here
 			$preview = str_replace(["-0.jpg", "-0.png"], ["-2.jpg", "-2.png"], $preview);
@@ -1886,7 +1886,7 @@ class OStatus
 		XML::addElement($doc, $entry, "title", html_entity_decode($title, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
 
 		$body = Post\Media::addAttachmentsToBody($item['uri-id'], $item['body']);
-		$body = self::formatPicturePost($body);
+		$body = self::formatPicturePost($body, $item['uri-id']);
 
 		if (!empty($item['title'])) {
 			$body = "[b]".$item['title']."[/b]\n\n".$body;