diff --git a/src/controllers/api/statuses.ts b/src/controllers/api/statuses.ts
index 8904b2b..d8186f5 100644
--- a/src/controllers/api/statuses.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/api/statuses.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 import { type AppController } from '@/app.ts';
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { DittoDB } from '@/db/DittoDB.ts';
-import { getUnattachedMediaByIds } from '@/db/unattached-media.ts';
+import { getUnattachedMediaByUrls } from '@/db/unattached-media.ts';
 import { getAncestors, getAuthor, getDescendants, getEvent } from '@/queries.ts';
 import { addTag, deleteTag } from '@/tags.ts';
 import { createEvent, paginationSchema, parseBody, updateListEvent } from '@/utils/api.ts';
@@ -94,9 +94,15 @@ const createStatusController: AppController = async (c) => {
   const viewerPubkey = await c.get('signer')?.getPublicKey();
 
   if (data.media_ids?.length) {
-    const media = await getUnattachedMediaByIds(kysely, data.media_ids)
+    const media = await getUnattachedMediaByUrls(kysely, data.media_ids)
       .then((media) => media.filter(({ pubkey }) => pubkey === viewerPubkey))
-      .then((media) => media.map(({ data }) => ['imeta', ...data]));
+      .then((media) =>
+        media.map(({ data }) => {
+          const tags: string[][] = JSON.parse(data);
+          const values: string[] = tags.map((tag) => tag.join(' '));
+          return ['imeta', ...values];
+        })
+      );
 
     tags.push(...media);
   }
diff --git a/src/db/unattached-media.ts b/src/db/unattached-media.ts
index 0628278..397a1f7 100644
--- a/src/db/unattached-media.ts
+++ b/src/db/unattached-media.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ async function getUnattachedMediaByIds(kysely: Kysely<DittoTables>, ids: string[
     .execute();
 }
 
+/** Get unattached media by URLs. */
+async function getUnattachedMediaByUrls(kysely: Kysely<DittoTables>, urls: string[]) {
+  if (!urls.length) return [];
+  return await selectUnattachedMediaQuery(kysely)
+    .where('url', 'in', urls)
+    .execute();
+}
+
 /** Delete rows as an event with media is being created. */
 async function deleteAttachedMedia(pubkey: string, urls: string[]): Promise<void> {
   if (!urls.length) return;
@@ -79,6 +87,7 @@ export {
   deleteUnattachedMediaByUrl,
   getUnattachedMedia,
   getUnattachedMediaByIds,
+  getUnattachedMediaByUrls,
   insertUnattachedMedia,
   type UnattachedMedia,
 };
diff --git a/src/utils/api.ts b/src/utils/api.ts
index dceede7..c54f5aa 100644
--- a/src/utils/api.ts
+++ b/src/utils/api.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ async function createEvent(t: EventStub, c: AppContext): Promise<NostrEvent> {
     });
   }
 
+  console.log(t);
+
   const event = await signer.signEvent({
     content: '',
     created_at: nostrNow(),
diff --git a/src/utils/note.ts b/src/utils/note.ts
index 580c207..20cb83a 100644
--- a/src/utils/note.ts
+++ b/src/utils/note.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import { nip19, nip21 } from 'nostr-tools';
 
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { getUrlMediaType, isPermittedMediaType } from '@/utils/media.ts';
-import { type DittoAttachment } from '@/views/mastodon/attachments.ts';
 
 linkify.registerCustomProtocol('nostr', true);
 linkify.registerCustomProtocol('wss');
@@ -58,18 +57,17 @@ function parseNoteContent(content: string): ParsedNoteContent {
   };
 }
 
-function getMediaLinks(links: Pick<Link, 'href'>[]): DittoAttachment[] {
-  return links.reduce<DittoAttachment[]>((acc, link) => {
+/** Returns a matrix of tags. Each item is a list of NIP-94 tags representing a file. */
+function getMediaLinks(links: Pick<Link, 'href'>[]): string[][][] {
+  return links.reduce<string[][][]>((acc, link) => {
     const mediaType = getUrlMediaType(link.href);
     if (!mediaType) return acc;
 
     if (isPermittedMediaType(mediaType, ['audio', 'image', 'video'])) {
-      acc.push({
-        url: link.href,
-        data: {
-          mime: mediaType,
-        },
-      });
+      acc.push([
+        ['url', link.href],
+        ['m', mediaType],
+      ]);
     }
 
     return acc;
diff --git a/src/views/mastodon/attachments.ts b/src/views/mastodon/attachments.ts
index 18fe031..8922985 100644
--- a/src/views/mastodon/attachments.ts
+++ b/src/views/mastodon/attachments.ts
@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ import { UnattachedMedia } from '@/db/unattached-media.ts';
 
 type DittoAttachment = TypeFest.SetOptional<UnattachedMedia, 'id' | 'pubkey' | 'uploaded_at'>;
 
-function renderAttachment(media: DittoAttachment) {
-  const { id, data, url } = media;
+function renderAttachment(tags: string[][]) {
+  const url = tags.find(([name]) => name === 'url')?.[1];
 
-  const m = data.find(([name]) => name === 'm')?.[1];
-  const alt = data.find(([name]) => name === 'alt')?.[1];
-  const cid = data.find(([name]) => name === 'cid')?.[1];
-  const blurhash = data.find(([name]) => name === 'blurhash')?.[1];
+  const m = tags.find(([name]) => name === 'm')?.[1];
+  const alt = tags.find(([name]) => name === 'alt')?.[1];
+  const cid = tags.find(([name]) => name === 'cid')?.[1];
+  const blurhash = tags.find(([name]) => name === 'blurhash')?.[1];
 
   return {
-    id: id ?? url,
+    id: url,
     type: getAttachmentType(m ?? ''),
     url,
     preview_url: url,
diff --git a/src/views/mastodon/statuses.ts b/src/views/mastodon/statuses.ts
index 8428e9a..889c23d 100644
--- a/src/views/mastodon/statuses.ts
+++ b/src/views/mastodon/statuses.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { nostrDate } from '@/utils.ts';
 import { getMediaLinks, parseNoteContent } from '@/utils/note.ts';
 import { unfurlCardCached } from '@/utils/unfurl.ts';
 import { accountFromPubkey, renderAccount } from '@/views/mastodon/accounts.ts';
-import { DittoAttachment, renderAttachment } from '@/views/mastodon/attachments.ts';
+import { renderAttachment } from '@/views/mastodon/attachments.ts';
 import { renderEmojis } from '@/views/mastodon/emojis.ts';
 
 interface RenderStatusOpts {
@@ -78,16 +78,11 @@ async function renderStatus(event: DittoEvent, opts: RenderStatusOpts): Promise<
 
   const mediaLinks = getMediaLinks(links);
 
-  const mediaTags: DittoAttachment[] = event.tags
+  const imeta: string[][][] = event.tags
     .filter(([name]) => name === 'imeta')
-    .map(([_, ...entries]) => {
-      const data = entries.map((entry) => entry.split(' '));
-      const url = data.find(([name]) => name === 'url')?.[1];
-      return { url, data };
-    })
-    .filter((media): media is DittoAttachment => !!media.url);
+    .map(([_, ...entries]) => entries.map((entry) => entry.split(' ')));
 
-  const media = [...mediaLinks, ...mediaTags];
+  const media = [...mediaLinks, ...imeta];
 
   return {
     id: event.id,