They're probably referring to the podman.socket, which isn't quite like a daemon-mode but means it can emulate it pretty well. Unless there is some daemon mode I missed that got added, but I'd be rather surprised at that.

Yep!

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-serv...

In places where you're doing a `dnf install podman` all you typically need to do is start the service and then point either the podman cli or docker cli directly at it. In Fedora for example it's podman.service.

I honestly prefer using the official docker cli when talking to podman.