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Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

In this post, the author explains why they migrated from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo, driven by ownership and data governance concerns rather than outages. The piece discusses data sovereignty, legal jurisdiction under FISA/CLOUD Act, and the Dutch government's code.overheid.nl, plus the author’s secure self-hosted CI/CD architecture and migration trade-offs.

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