A developer explains their migration from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, driven by concerns about digital sovereignty rather than reliability. Key reasons include GitHub's absorption into Microsoft's CoreAI division (losing independent leadership), the April 2026 opt-out flip for Copilot training data, and unresolvable US jurisdictional risk under FISA 702 and the CLOUD Act. The post details the technical architecture: Forgejo v15 LTS on a single NUC with Postgres and Traefik, plus a hardened CI runner using KVM isolation, gVisor, weekly destructive rebuilds, nftables egress filtering, and scope-bound tokens. The Dutch government's choice of Forgejo for code.overheid.nl is cited as institutional validation. Honest trade-offs are covered: loss of GitHub's social graph, Actions ecosystem friction, no Dependabot (replaced by Renovate), and lack of enterprise support.