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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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I am not sure that you read my comment properly. Registration form asks for non-Microsoft e-mail address first. You CAN enter Outlook or Hotmail address, which will create one, but it's not even something that they acknowledge in that form.
And if you still don't believe me yet, I have literally tried this yesterday, and it works. It did create a new Outlook account when Ientered
...@outlook.come-mail address.My father has a Microsoft account, but doesn't have Outlook/Hotmail account for example, which is a bit strange at least for me, and I had no idea that this is the default.
I think the misunderstanding comes from where you wrote “it would create a new mail account” which is objectively inaccurate, the @outlook.com / @hotmail.com emails already exist as both a “mail” and Microsoft account - there’s literally nothing being “created” in that situation, you’re just signing in to what already exists.
In your father’s case, he probably has a Microsoft Account set up with a third party email address. If he were to want that to include a mailbox, he could navigate to his Microsoft account’s email settings, create a new “@outlook.com” alias, and set it as the primary alias for the account. He would then have a mailbox usable at Outlook.com or via Microsoft Exchange in a mail client.
It’s possible to do the same thing with Google - you can create your Google account using a third-party email address, you won’t have a mailbox but if you were to visit gmail.com you would be offered the option to create a mailbox with a new @gmail.com address.