GoKawiilI 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.
Most pieces about leaving GitHub lead with the outages. Outages are real. They are not why I'm leaving. The outages, the AI-by-default opt-in, and the fact that GitHub no longer has its own CEO are all symptoms of one underlying fact: I do not own this. The Dutch government just published the same conclusion. So this is the long version of that thinking, and what the move actually looks like once you decide to make it.
TL;DR
GitHub logged 257 incidents in May 2025 to April 2026, 48 of them major. The CTO publicly apologised and said capacity needs to scale 30x to keep up with AI-driven load.
In August 2025 GitHub stopped having its own CEO. It is now a unit of Microsoft's CoreAI division, the same group building Copilot and the broader AI stack.
On April 24, 2026 GitHub flipped Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ user-interaction data to opt-in for AI training by default. There is no repository-level opt-out.
US-jurisdictional risk under FISA Section 702 and the CLOUD Act is unresolved. Microsoft's own attorney told the French Senate under oath he could not guarantee EU data was safe from silent US government access.
The Dutch government picked Forgejo for code.overheid.nl in April 2026 for the same set of reasons. I'm doing the same for my work.
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