The answers in this thread are all over, but it's towards this direction I'm leaning

Awesome. Sounds like you made the same journey. Right now it feels like I might ditch the dual boot too in a near future.

Didn't know about this site, thanks

Lemmy-centric, I don't know... I've been using Kbin and Mbin all along. I'm even posting this from fedia.io. But yes, I admit to feeling that the more users a service has, the more attractive it should be. And I was also thinking from a sync POV, as there has been problems before between the services (which doesn't seem to happen now as much luckily).

Yeah I don't really get why I should pay like $20, or even more, yearly, for a service that just serves free podcasts, and where the money doesn't go to the creators at all. I like sync.. but that doesn't justify the price.

Cool, too bad I shut down my NC server a while ago...

I did check it out earlier but feels a bit clunky that it must run the audio stream in a separate program. This means it'll inherently lack some functions like going back or forward 15 seconds with the press of a button as this is a function mostly inherent to podcast players, not e.g. VLC. Not the biggest issue but still.

Grover Podcast seemed promising, too bad it's not open source. Might run with it either way if I can't find anything better.

Thanks!