For #Mastodon to get widely adopted (specifically if it wants to replace #Twitter), the steps between the landing page of #joinmastodon and account creation need to reduce.
We could write a weighted score algorithm that will assign a new user to a randomly chosen server based on server-loads. However, there will be an advanced option for #powerusers to choose their server. This way we can keep the load distributed across the different servers available in #fediverse.