L 0 K 1 on Nostr: I'm not sure why mine gets mangled into all alphabet, maybe I made it that way first ...

I'm not sure why mine gets mangled into all alphabet, maybe I made it that way first but it's written with a zero and one... and always gets mis-transcribed, which was the whole point of making this handle

l0k1

I first adopted the handle "elfspice" back in the days of DMT-World, stolen from the slang name of DMT. I later ended up hanging out on Spiritplants IRC, and a more senior member of the chat, who everyone fawned over, was called "Elfstone" and people started bitching at me because they had to type 5 characters to auto-type his name instead of mine, which due to P being before T was picked out first by xchat.

So I changed to loki. Then someone was bitching about it colliding with some other name, idk, I can't remember what, so I changed it to l0k1.

This ended the name collision problem and the handle stuck, and I found it endlessly amusing that people couldn't read it correctly. It's practically a demonstration of why Base58 and Bech32 have only one each from Il1 and 0Oo.

I've even got a domain now, l0k1.cc

Nobody bothers to manually type these things any more so the transcription thing isn't a problem anymore.

But I still do kinda wish that fonts without distinctive Il1 and o0O would be lost from the internet, anyhow. Come to that, I often dream about people using more sensible, less ambiguous alphabets, but that's about as likely to happen as everyone learning to speak esperanto, which I by the way I think is a lame language. So, whatever.

Mangling language is part of language.