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it's open source
Sure. You can trust your own fork. Just don't use the official repos or their servers. The client isn't where the danger is.
There's a server side and it is secret ?
Your client talks to their server, their server talks to your friend's client. They don't accept third party apps. The server code is open source, not a secret. But that doesn't mean it isn't 99% the open source code, with a few privacy breaking changes. Or that the server software runs exactly as implied, but that that is moot since other software also runs on the same servers and intercepts the data.
Do you mean the servers aren't guaranteed to be running the exact code that's on github ?
Yes.