on a public relay, the notes are public. since negentropy is a more efficient way to get the notes i havent seen a reason to turn it into an option.  (scrapers are pulling the data already without it).  i think clients may all use negentropy in the future.  

it is an option server side, if you feel strongly about it i can turn it off for your relay(s) and consider making it a UI option in the future.

there was a bug in the rt proxy config that i did not realize was preventing negentropy, so i fixed it about a month ago.. 

 I meant, how can I use it to pull notes from other relays onto theforest, instead of the faucet? 

 ohhhh 😁 i do have sync support, similar to stream, from any other (same version negentropy 0.9.6) ..