Developer Moves from GitHub to Self-Hosted Forgejo Platform
Original: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
Why This Matters
Reflects growing developer concerns about platform ownership and data sovereignty
Dutch developer Jorijn Schrijvershof migrated his code repositories from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, citing ownership concerns rather than service outages. The Dutch government made a similar move in April 2026, launching code.overheid.nl using Forgejo for digital autonomy and legal compliance requirements.
Schrijvershof established code.jorijn.com running Forgejo v15 LTS on a single NUC with hardened security setup. The Dutch Ministry of Interior chose Forgejo over GitLab for code.overheid.nl because it is fully open source and provides digital autonomy. GitHub logged 257 incidents from May 2025 to April 2026, including 48 major outages totaling 112 hours of downtime. CTO Vlad Fedorov attributed load issues to 30x capacity growth needed for agentic AI workflows since December 2025. GitHub became a unit of Microsoft's CoreAI division in August 2025, no longer having its own CEO. The platform defaulted Copilot user data to AI training opt-in by April 2026, with no repository-level opt-out option. Schrijvershof plans to archive GitHub repositories and redirect them to the new Forgejo instance.