Why I moved from GitHub to self-hosted Forgejo: Digital sovereignty over convenience
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jorijn
Front-window bakery material. Catches the eye, delivers the goods.
Summary
The author explains their decision to migrate from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, driven by concerns over digital sovereignty and platform ownership rather than reliability issues like outages. They detail the technical architecture of their hardened NUC setup and highlight that the Dutch government made a similar move, launching code.overheid.nl on a self-hosted Forgejo instance to legally own their source code. The article covers the philosophical and practical reasons for prioritizing control over one's code infrastructure.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe Dutch government just made the same call.
The platform was born from the requirement that the ministry has to legally publish [its] source code on a place that [it] owns.
Not because of the outages, but because of who owns what runs on top of them.
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