Please rename the default branch from `master` to `main` to be more inclusive

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The branch naming scheme is not very inclusive, and doesn't match the direction the industry is going.

Aside from the arguably most important reason outlined above, these terms are becoming less used and therefore increasingly less compatible as more communities move away from its use (eg [NIST], [Python], [Drupal], [Github] and [Django]. The usage of 'master' and 'slave' in hardware and software has been halted by the Los Angeles County Office of Affirmative Action, the Django community, the Python community and several other programming languages. This was done because the language is offensive and hurts people in the community [Django2]. Root operator Internet Systems Consortium also stopped using the terms [ISC].
-- ref: ietf - draft-knodel-terminology-13

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to see the default branch changed from master to main. We recently did this at the nextcloud/helm repo and it just required us to update our ci/cd workflows and do a quick update our documentation. Both were just a search and replace of the word master to main. Any users with the current branch bookmarked or hardcoded will be redirected when they actually go to the old link.

GitHub also has a guide here: https://github.com/github/renaming

Describe alternatives you've considered
We could also use another name for the default branch instead of master, like default or core or release or primary.

Additional context
If there's any help needed on this front, I'm happy to lend a hand :)

[skjnldsv]

Hey jesse!
Finding this ticket a bit late, but this is definitely something we would like to do.
We've already renamed many of our repos. Server is the most complex one because we have a very big amount of scripts that needs to be adjusted for that new name and, to be fair, I'm afraid of missing something and creating more issues.

I'll raise that discussion again internally

[jessebot]

@skjnldsv no problem and thanks for circling back to this! Please let me know if there's anything you need help with on this :)

[skjnldsv]

Another update to tell you that more and more repos are being migrated :)
Server is still not there yet, but we're getting there! 💪