Update readme to explain default branch change (segmentio#738)

Add a section to README.md explaining our choice to rename the default branch of the repo. * Move Default branch note under Motivations
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 the Go standard library to make it easy to use and integrate with existing
 software.
 
+#### Note:
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+In order to better align  with our newly adopted Code of Contact, the kafka-go project has renamed our default branch to `main`.  
+For the full details of our Code Of Conduct see [this](./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) document.
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 ## Migrating to 0.4
 
 Version 0.4 introduces a few breaking changes to the repository structure which