diff --git a/app/activitypub/util.py b/app/activitypub/util.py
index 25fcd060..d92d3bf2 100644
--- a/app/activitypub/util.py
+++ b/app/activitypub/util.py
@@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ def refresh_user_profile_task(user_id):
                 user.about_html = markdown_to_html(user.about)          # prefer Markdown if provided, overwrite version obtained from HTML
             else:
                 user.about = html_to_text(user.about_html)
+            if 'type' in activity_json:
+                user.bot = True if activity_json['type'] == 'Service' else False
             user.ap_fetched_at = utcnow()
             user.public_key = activity_json['publicKey']['publicKeyPem']
             user.indexable = new_indexable