diff --git a/.well-known/webfinger/README.md b/.well-known/webfinger/README.md
index f83aff1..0ad59aa 100644
--- a/.well-known/webfinger/README.md
+++ b/.well-known/webfinger/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ you can do this manually by grabbing the webfinger from your fedi host.
 
 as an example, to get the webfinger response for `@ben@tilde.zone`
 
-    curl https://tilde.zone/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Aben%40tilde.zone > ~/.webfinger.json
+    curl 'https://tilde.zone/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:ben@tilde.zone' > ~/.webfinger.json
 
 see [webfinger.net](https://webfinger.net) for more info and a simple tester for your setup.
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