Imagine a place where you always feel at home. Somewhere, society’s abandoned and straying children, the alley cats of the dark, can find a place to belong. Whether by the fire of an inn perched on the side of a windswept mountain, running in a golden-green field dotted with buttercups, or in the attic of a star-scraper, gazing into cosmic eternity with the chosen few you call yours.

The metaverse, and the rapidly evolving VR technologies and blockchain that enable it, will unlock many dreams. One of them will be to serve as a home to misfits to whom the real world, and its social fragmentation, has little to offer. Plutoverse, the ‘Misfits Metaverse’, is making a home for them.

What Web3 is really about

The shape the metaverse takes is imperative to the experience and access it provides. You don’t want a hyperreal echo of the web2, where social stratification -and wealth stratification- denote your access to the web3. Despite the token nature of blockchain economies, that is not the goal.

The real goal of Web3 is to push power and authority over the worlds we experience, the worlds we, the users, build, as far as possible, and out of the hands of any dominant entity, and into the hands of the citizenry of the world. the new World. Opening the shared consensual hallucination that is our virtual world is all the world, and reward everyone for being a part of this. Create a new digital social structure that is superior in inclusion, openness and tolerance to the one that currently exists. This is what can be achieved by removing power from the equation.

How Plutoverse is a building social multiplayer platform

Plutoverse wants to take the opportunity of truly free open spaces to create ‘The Metaverse of Misfits’. Plutoverse is a web3 startup that sees the potential of the metaverse for what it really is, an open sandbox where everyone can come together to create, play, share and connect, where users can build virtual environments and create spaces to be with their friends, strangers and everyone in between in a safe space where they can be themselves.

And what’s the difference between that and some online corporate game creation service? The people who benefit are the users. Created worlds can never be censored except by the community. You can be whoever you want and express yourself however you want, and be rewarded for it. A space where misfits can come 24/7 and play and hang out and build, earning real value for doing so, and owning the things they and their friends create.

Why avatars are key to Web3 and the metaverse

Crucial to all of this is your in-game avatar, the digital representation of your inner self, designed to be in your most natural instinct, for all to see. Already in the social worlds, there are straitjackets about how you present yourself, even though, as a species, we’ve gotten better at putting our true selves on display.

Truly personalized avatars that act like you in the digital space act as a panacea for many of these problems. Your avatar will be the most important filter for your social presentation as you go about your daily life in the metaverse. Plutoverse believes that players should be in full control and rewarded for their self-expression through their avatars. It should be easier, efficient and more rewarding.

Users’ digital avatars should be a more comfortable second skin they wear to wander the halls of the metaverse. To inspire this, Plutoverse also partnered with NoFiltr, an influencer incubator, with the goal of producing virtual avatars of the world’s favorite influencers for Plutoverse. NoFiltr has a talented group of young artists and creators whose exceptional skills will run rampant across the Plutoverse, showcasing their latest creations.

The problem of social networks in Web2 and the importance of communities

In web2 there is pressure, the need to conform, the need to excel weather compliance, a necessity in collecting likes, reactions and comments that don’t always come, either for the individual or for the audience that consumes their lives, from the right place. Give me a like and I’ll like you again. How do you know what is real, what is authentic, or, in fact, who you are? Those who spent their formative years under the rumble and glare of social media are more beleaguered by the painful meth-talk of society at large.

Despite all this, social networks have helped micro-communities to form better than ever. The problem is that those communities are at risk from the very platform they are built on, with members always aware that the platform they connect on could shut down, change, fail, or stop them. On web3, communities will be licensed for free expression. Plutoverse knows how essential that is, and will encourage users at every step and provide them with the tools they need to build the platforms they want, without ever having the authority to take those things away again.

The point is not lost on co-founder Prashant Sharma, who said, “Creators… have always been community-focused: metaverses are built natively around communities.” The startup is determined to open up web3 to those who would otherwise have nowhere to go. The young team recently received a big nod of approval from Jaynti Kanana, CEO and co-founder of Polygon, who has acted as an angel investor. Plutoverse’s fast-paced social game will most likely not work as expected on the older Ethereum architecture, so it stands to reason that the two founders would agree on many of Plutoverse’s ambitions.

Plutoverse Building the Metaverse First

The metaverse is in its early stages. Already, in the broader media, thanks in part to Zuckerberg’s aberrations, early dreams of the metaverse have been dimmed in the public imagination. However, don’t be fooled. Builders like Plutoverse are still, well, building. They are building multiplayer social platforms without a central authority, they are building realms of self-expression, they are building a new social architecture that is more harmonious, more tolerant, and more involved for all. A society that works because everyone benefits from being kind, and no one benefits from being cruel. That’s the power of a decentralized internet, built on immutable blockchain pillars, owned by the creators who make the world what it is: a home for all misfits.