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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ gratitude and appreciation of everyone's time and work.
 
 Generally, the first steps are:
 
-* Fork this repository and clone it locally. Note that unlike the git default, our main branch is called `main`.
+* Fork this repository and clone it locally. Note that our main branch is called `master` (as opposed to the MoveOn Spoke repo, which is called `main`).
 * Get a working development environment (see the [README](https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/#spoke) and [docs/](https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/Spoke/tree/main/docs))-- reach out through our communication channels (above) if you have issues.
 
 ### Picking an issue