Post #2537773
2026-05-13 20:35 UTC
A developer discusses his reasons for moving.
https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/
'GitHub is no longer an independent company with its own CEO. Since August 2025 it is a unit of Microsoft's CoreAI division.
The April 2026 outages and the Copilot training-data default flip are downstream of the same shift. Both are predictable from the structure.
US-jurisdictional risk under FISA 702 and the CLOUD Act is real and unresolvable from the customer side. EU data residency is a comfort, not a fix.'
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