Is it safe to use the Thorium browser?

I downloaded thorium on android and have been using it since yesterday. It's nippy and I have found it to be a good replacement for the bloaty brave browser. However, there is a bit of a stir over the developer using some nsfw images. Folks are going berserk on the developer, while others reckon those images were for some website of his. Any way to know if it is all safe or should I just go back to using brave?