diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/peertube/client/RetrofitPeertubeAPI.java b/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/peertube/client/RetrofitPeertubeAPI.java
index 84469fa4d..e21def8ea 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/peertube/client/RetrofitPeertubeAPI.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/peertube/client/RetrofitPeertubeAPI.java
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.IDN;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -254,7 +253,7 @@ public class RetrofitPeertubeAPI {
                 .proxy(app.fedilab.android.mastodon.helper.Helper.getProxy(_context.getApplicationContext()))
                 .build();
         Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
-                .baseUrl("https://" + IDN.toASCII(instance, IDN.ALLOW_UNASSIGNED))
+                .baseUrl("https://" + instance)
                 .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                 .client(okHttpClient)
                 .build();