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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24023332

a cool guide for police encounters

• Author: /u/Wifey-pale245
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More advice from @bosco@lemmy.ml:

Speak to them through the closed/locked door, DO NOT open the door or exit your home unless they are serving a warrant, at which point you should be asking to see it.

Stepping outside can potentially impact your protection under different interpretations of constitutional rights and also opens the doors to a litany of manufactured charges/claims from the police to justify entering the home or seizing individuals.

They got aggressive and threatening and/or assaulted an officer.
I saw ______ inside the home when they opened the door.
I detected the scent/signs of ______.

Getting back into your house once outside is infinitely more likely to trigger the cops to escalate the situation compared to never exposing yourself to that rush by not opening the door to begin with.

Not to mention the garbage where somehow an officer can place their foot/body into the open doorway of you open the door at which point if you attempt to close the door they claim assaulting an officer.

Don’t open the door. Don’t go outside to speak with them. If they’ve got a warrant they’re not going to be asking.

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If you created a sub, by default not a single person get notified about it: it can only be seen in the communities list of your instance. But don't worry it's pretty easy to change it

How to get people see your community

1. Write good description of what it is about, what is going to be posted, what's to be expected
2. Craft instance agnostic link to it. Replace "!sub-name@instance" for yours in this link (see the footnote for Lemmy 0.18+)[^1] [Search to federate this sub to your instance](/search/q/!sub-name@instance/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1). It will direct people to search for your community on their own instance.
3. Post it to meta/main community of your instance: for example !meta@sopuli.xyz
4. Also post it to lemmyverse community-promo sub
5. Start posting!

That's it, by reposting it just twice you dramatically increase discoverability of your community. Of course you may find additional community-promo subs but posting in at least these basic two is a good start

Good luck!

[^1]: Lemmy 0.18.0.
[This link will fetch CommunityName to your instance](/search?q=!communityname%40instance&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll) Change communityname with community name, and instance with instance link (without https://)

With just a click, this bookmarklet will redirect you to a foreign community on your native Lemmy instance

It brings your favourite lemmy back home!

If you don’t know what it is, it’s a bookmark that runs a small piece of code that works in all desktop or even mobile browsers

javascript:(function(){
var url = new URL(document.URL);
var baseURL = url.hostname;
var pathname = url.pathname;
window.location.href="https://sopuli.xyz" + pathname + "@" + baseURL;
})();

Usage

1. Copy the code, replace "https://sopuli.xyz" in the code to URL of your native instance (for example to "https://lemmy.ca")
2. Create a new bookmark, paste the code from previous step into URL field
3. Go to a non native lemmy community
4. Click the bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar to activate it.

cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/12438