Why I Built the Most Secure Survival & Prepping Community on the Interwebs

Built for the Crackdown We All See Coming

Let’s be blunt.

If you’re still relying on Big Tech platforms, closed-source “secure” messengers, or centralized communities to organize, plan, and communicate about preparedness, you are standing on a trap door.

And when the power swings back to the left—and it will—that door is getting yanked open.

That’s not paranoia. That’s pattern recognition.

UPDATE: While I’ve been writing this article, we’ve been hit with yet another DDoS attack on our new Element Matrix server. That’s not a coincidence. The people who like to spy, censor, and control communications are increasingly unhappy that they no longer have visibility into our private community’s discussions. When you remove their ability to monitor, pressure, or quietly suppress a network, the attacks start. This is exactly why we built our own hardened communications infrastructure in the first place.

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This Wasn’t a Knee-Jerk Reaction. It Was a Months-Long Effort.

I didn’t wake up one morning and decide to spin up our own communications platform because it sounded cool.

This took months.

Months of:

• Threat modeling

• Studying source code

• Reviewing how “secure” platforms actually operate under pressure

• Tracking real-world deplatforming, metadata exploitation, and silent suppression

• Testing alternatives

• Breaking things

• Rebuilding them correctly

I’ve already laid out in detail how and why I concluded that platforms like Signal are not appropriate for long-term, adversarial-environment organizing HERE. That conclusion didn’t come from Reddit threads or influencer takes. It came from professional analysis, technical validation, and decades of experience.

When the Switch Gets Flipped, Are You Ready?

Don’t wait until the plug gets pulled.

Guardian members get access to our ultra-secure Element/Matrix community, real-time SDENS emergency alerts, and a hardened communications network built to survive censorship, crackdowns, and platform failure.

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My Credentials (Because This Matters)

I’m not guessing. I’m not outsourcing this to a vendor. And I’m not trusting someone else’s black box.

I’m a:

• Lifelong programmer

• Former Sun Microsystems / Oracle professional

• Red Hat certified systems and network administrator

This is what I do. This is what I’ve done my entire adult life.

Which is exactly why I wasn’t willing to trust our Guardians community to:

• Closed-source server code

• Corporate moderation policies

• Algorithmic suppression

• Or platforms that can be flipped off with a phone call

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So I Built Our Own.

I personally deployed our own Element / Matrix infrastructure using open-source code.

No backdoors.
No censorship.
No suppression.
No shadowbanning.
No deplatforming.

This is not a Discord server.
This is not a Telegram channel.
This is not a vibe-based community.

This is hard infrastructure.

Locked down. Hardened. Actively maintained.

And yes, we are way ahead of the curve. No other top-tier creator in this space has gone anywhere near this far, this early, or this seriously.

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“But What If Big Brother Comes Knocking?”

Here’s the part most people don’t plan for.

If our hosting provider were told to nuke our internet connection tomorrow, I can:

• Redeploy daily backup images

• Spin the entire stack back up

• Across three offshore data centers

• And have us operational again within hours

This is not theoretical. This is designed, tested, and rehearsed.

That’s the difference between talking about resilience and actually building it.

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What Guardians Get Inside the Network

This isn’t just “a chat.”

Guardians get access to 18 private channels, covering:

• 🚨 Emergency & SHTF communications

• 📡 SDENS alerts

• 🧭 Survival & preparedness

• 🥫 Food storage & procurement

• 🧠 Intelligence & threat analysis

• 🛠 Skills, gear, and hard lessons learned

• And everything else that actually matters when things go sideways

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SDENS: Survival Dispatch Emergency Notification System

Guardians also receive SDENS SHTF alerts, pushed through multiple redundant paths:

• 📧 Email

• 📰 Substack

• 🔐 Element SDENS channel

• 📱 Signal SDENS channel (the only Signal channel we still use)

• 📻 PoCLink radios (link after my signature)

If one path goes dark, the others don’t.

That’s intentional.

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Onboarding, Support, and Vetting

This wasn’t slapped together.

We built:

• A dedicated onboarding process

• A support team to help members get set up correctly

• Clear guidance so non-technical people aren’t left behind

Access is limited to paying Guardian members only.
No drive-bys. No trolls. No platform tourists.

Already a Guardian?

If you haven’t connected to our private Element/Matrix server yet, reach out to GuardianOnboarding@SurvivalDispatch.com or simply reply to the onboarding email already sent to you. The team will walk you through , step-by-step instructions to get connected securely and correctly.

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The Cost (Because This Isn’t a Grift)

Running secure infrastructure costs money. Period.

But we’ve kept this accessible on purpose:

• $7.99/month

• $79.99/year

That’s it.

No upsells. No nonsense. No gimmicks that collapse six months later.

Infrastructure Built for What Comes Next

This infrastructure wasn’t built for clicks.
It was built for continuity.

Guardian members get private access to the most secure and private survival and preparedness community on the interwebs - plus SDENS alerts delivered across email, Substack, Element, Signal, and POCLink radios.

Serious people. Real preparation. No Big Tech leash.

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Final Thought

Preparedness isn’t just about food, water, and gear anymore.

It’s about communications, community, and continuity.

When censorship ramps up.
When accounts disappear.
When platforms fall in line.

The people who prepared early won’t be scrambling.

They’ll already be connected.

If you’re serious about survival - real survival, not cosplay - this is where you belong.

Welcome to the safest survival and prepping community on the interwebs.

Godspeed,
Chris Heaven, CEO
Survival Dispatch

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