Developer Jorijn Schrijvershof shifted his public repositories from GitHub to a self‑hosted Forgejo instance, citing ownership concerns rather than recent outages. The Dutch Ministry of the Interior mirroring his move launched code.overheid.nl on April 27, 2026, a Forgejo‑based portal required to keep government code under direct control. Both migrations underscore a growing demand for autonomous hosting.

GitHub recorded 257 incidents between May 2025 and April 2026, 48 classified as major, and its CTO admitted capacity must grow thirtyfold to handle AI‑driven traffic. In August 2025 the platform lost its independent CEO, becoming a unit of Microsoft’s CoreAI division, while a privacy change on April 24, 2026 switched Copilot data collection to an opt‑out default, raising data‑ownership alarms.

Schrijvershof now runs Forgejo v15 LTS on a hardened NUC with a KVM‑isolated, weekly‑rebuilt Actions runner at code.jorijn.com. He plans to archive each GitHub repo and redirect the archive links to the new server once migration finishes. By controlling the stack, he sidesteps both the AI‑centric data policy and the jurisdictional exposure inherent to a US‑based service.

The move illustrates a broader shift among developers and institutions toward self‑hosted Git platforms that guarantee full control over code provenance and auditability. As AI integration deepens and legal pressures mount, projects that cannot tolerate opaque data harvesting or foreign jurisdiction may increasingly adopt solutions like Forgejo, reinforcing the platform’s relevance beyond niche hobbyists.