I've done this as well for a number of years (probably close to 5 at this point) and have only noticed one service that got hacked and my domain got leaked. No spam at all really, but I've stayed on top of unsubscribing to all marketing emails
I've used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the "seen in" section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
More meant ui/ux. It just feels slightly chunky and unpolished, compared to say element, signal or WhatsApp.
Like it feels like an older android app to me
Edit: looking at it now, probably the inability to hide contact pictures, as I don't have any so it's just a bunch of colorful numbers when I open the app
Was very bummed to hear about this, was literally on my way to installing this on a new vps to connect to a handful of different bridges, when I noticed the repo had been archived.
Sucks as all of the other options are either not as feature-rich, or are resource intensive.
Do they have a mastodon to stay up to date with?