diff --git a/app/soapbox/actions/preload.js b/app/soapbox/actions/preload.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..405e144f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/soapbox/actions/preload.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { mapValues } from 'lodash';
+
+const PRELOAD_IMPORT = 'PRELOAD_IMPORT';
+
+// https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma-fe/-/merge_requests/1176/diffs
+const decodeUTF8Base64 = (data) => {
+  const rawData = atob(data);
+  const array = Uint8Array.from(rawData.split('').map((char) => char.charCodeAt(0)));
+  const text = new TextDecoder().decode(array);
+  return text;
+};
+
+const decodeData = data =>
+  mapValues(data, base64string =>
+    JSON.parse(decodeUTF8Base64(base64string)));
+
+export function preload() {
+  const element = document.getElementById('initial-results');
+  const data = element ? JSON.parse(element.textContent) : {};
+
+  return {
+    type: PRELOAD_IMPORT,
+    data: decodeData(data),
+  };
+}
diff --git a/app/soapbox/containers/soapbox.js b/app/soapbox/containers/soapbox.js
index 2c7d6f85c..a2fcda9b6 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/containers/soapbox.js
+++ b/app/soapbox/containers/soapbox.js
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ import { ScrollContext } from 'react-router-scroll-4';
 import UI from '../features/ui';
 // import Introduction from '../features/introduction';
 import { fetchCustomEmojis } from '../actions/custom_emojis';
-import { hydrateStore } from '../actions/store';
+import { preload } from '../actions/preload';
 import { IntlProvider } from 'react-intl';
-import initialState from '../initial_state';
 import ErrorBoundary from '../components/error_boundary';
 import { fetchInstance } from 'soapbox/actions/instance';
 import { fetchSoapboxConfig } from 'soapbox/actions/soapbox';
@@ -30,9 +29,8 @@ import messages from 'soapbox/locales/messages';
 const validLocale = locale => Object.keys(messages).includes(locale);
 
 export const store = configureStore();
-const hydrateAction = hydrateStore(initialState);
 
-store.dispatch(hydrateAction);
+store.dispatch(preload());
 store.dispatch(fetchMe());
 store.dispatch(fetchInstance());
 store.dispatch(fetchSoapboxConfig());