Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo
Jorijn Schrijvershof
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...