[adidalal]

Unfortunately not a solution for federation with other servers, but you can disable presence on Matrix servers you control.

For this playbook, use these variables:

  matrix_synapse_use_presence: false
  matrix_client_element_enable_presence_by_hs_url: {"https://matrix.yourserver.com": false}

[kenmacd]

Thank you. I had that set for my server, but I just wish there was a way to tell other servers not to send them. Disabling them on my server turns them in to a no-op, but it still has to process all those requests.