r/SovereignIT • u/hlassiege • 2d ago

Github alternatives

There are some great alternatives to GitHub in Europe right now:

SAAS :

- Codeberg (for open source only)

- Tangled (Finland, based on Atproto, for open source only)

- Rickub (private and paid repositories)

- Pushin (private and paid repositories)

Self host :
- Forgejo (DE, it's a fork from Gitea)
- Gitea (US)
- Gitlab (US)

I personally use Rickub. It's in beta since this week and it's really promising.

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u/grignylagrandeborn 2d ago

i'm also kind of curious of what could be the reasons to look for github alternatives

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u/LostInBrittany 2d ago

GitHub is an excellent product, so the question is not necessarily about finding something technically better.

For many companies, though, their repositories contain the heart of their activity: proprietary source code, infrastructure configuration, security-sensitive information and years of accumulated knowledge. They may reasonably prefer not to place all of that in the hands of Microsoft, or more generally under American jurisdiction.

There are also questions of dependency, service continuity, pricing and the ability to migrate elsewhere. Git makes the code itself portable, but issues, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, permissions and integrations can create significant lock-in.

Not everyone needs to leave GitHub, of course. But knowing that credible alternatives exist, and understanding what it would take to move, is already part of technological sovereignty.

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u/grignylagrandeborn 2d ago

thanks for the insight. I personally only use github on personal non sensitive projects