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Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo | Jorijn Schrijvershof

jorijn.com·Jorijn Schrijvershof·20 days ago
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I moved my code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo. Not because of the outages, but because of who owns what runs on top of them. The Dutch government just made the same call. On April 27, 2026 the Dutch Ministry of the Interior soft-launched code.overheid.nl , a self-hosted Forgejo instance for Dutch government source code. Project manager Boris Van Hoytema said the platform "was born from the requirement that the ministry has to legally publish [its] source code on a place that [it] owns," and that Forgejo was picked over GitLab because it is fully open source and offers all the freedoms needed for digital autonomy . The week before, I quietly moved my own code in the same direction. My canonical Git host is now code.jorijn.com , running Forgejo v15 LTS on a single NUC in a hardened setup. Some of my repositories already live there; the rest are queued. The longer-term plan is to archive my public GitHub repositories once the migration is complete and point each archive at the new home.…

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