Selection bias then as the majority of European companies are for sure not hosting their own Forgejo or GitForge.

Where I work we're hosting our own gitlab instance and the previous company I worked for hosted their own Bitbucket. For most developers I know it's either a self hosted git platform instance or Github enterprise.

I've asked around in my circles, because I am genuinely interested: Everyone not working in startup space IS hosting their own instances.

Hell, even I do it.

Github pricing is aimed at US companies. Small EU companies that can only afford to pay their 5-6 developers 60K euro per year rather selfhost than pay GitHub.

I am working for small companies, for medium sized companies and for huge behemoths.

None (apart from one customer as I said) has their code on GitHub.

The big ones because of trade secrets. Which is ironic, because most of them use Microsoft Teams and talk freely there xD