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I think it's probably from Facebook's culture of pretending it's a force for good when it's a mixed bag like every other Megacorp. Here's an example of what Zuck has said:

> I believe the most important thing we can do is work to bring people closer together. It's so important that we're changing Facebook's whole mission to take this on.

No wonder they have a major project named Yoga and now this...

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Pretty sure it's called yoga because it is a flexible layout engine. A joke.

Here's another one: https://facebook.github.io/prophet/

It's used to predict things, but still strikes me as an odd name, just like Yoga.

The comment you're replying to is a perfectly good reason why it's named Yoga, not sure why it'd still seem "odd" with that context. Not particularly witty, but it definitely makes sense.

It was called css-layout but got renamed to Yoga because it implemented the “flexbox” layout and not all of CSS. Flex -> Yoga was indeed the joke/reference.

> it's a mixed bag like every other Megacorp

No, you can't simply dismiss the fundamental problems with Facebook/Meta with whataboutism. Google and Apple and Microsoft are standard mixed bags. Not Facebook.

Facebook is pure evil. It has queued up the complete obliteration of western democracy, which even Rupert Murdoch couldn't quite manage on his own. You can absolutely find non-directly-evil things to at Facebook/Meta, but it all supports the evil in the end.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...

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