Remote users' avatars/banners live on their home server, not the one the client is connected to. The server already rewrites CDN paths to absolute URLs when fanning content out.

What to do

• Resolve avatar/banner URLs for remote users against their home domain rather than the connected server's base URL.
• Handle the case where a remote asset is unreachable (fallback to default/initials avatar).

Acceptance

• Remote user avatars/banners render from the correct home server.
• Failures degrade gracefully to a placeholder.

Server reference

• Absolute CDN URL rewriting for fanout: absolute_cdn_url in src/federation/outbound.rs.
• Remote profile mirroring: mirror_user in src/federation/mod.rs.

Server reference — accordserver branch claude/federated-servers-xlydlj.