diff --git a/api/funkwhale_api/instance/serializers.py b/api/funkwhale_api/instance/serializers.py
index 93fdd8d18..3259674ea 100644
--- a/api/funkwhale_api/instance/serializers.py
+++ b/api/funkwhale_api/instance/serializers.py
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ class NodeInfo20Serializer(serializers.Serializer):
 
 
 class SpaManifestSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
-    name = serializers.CharField()
-    short_name = serializers.CharField()
+    name = serializers.CharField(default="Funkwhale")
+    short_name = serializers.CharField(default="Funkwhale")
     display = serializers.CharField(required=False)
     background_color = serializers.CharField(required=False)
     lang = serializers.CharField(required=False)
diff --git a/api/funkwhale_api/instance/views.py b/api/funkwhale_api/instance/views.py
index 91b3e3cb4..fd762c2b6 100644
--- a/api/funkwhale_api/instance/views.py
+++ b/api/funkwhale_api/instance/views.py
@@ -131,8 +131,6 @@ class SpaManifest(generics.GenericAPIView):
             settings.FUNKWHALE_SPA_HTML_ROOT, "manifest.json"
         )
         parsed_manifest = json.loads(existing_manifest)
-        parsed_manifest["short_name"] = settings.APP_NAME
-        parsed_manifest["name"] = settings.APP_NAME
         parsed_manifest["start_url"] = federation_utils.full_url("/")
         instance_name = preferences.get("instance__name")
         if instance_name: