As part of T254646 it's recommended to not use "master" as a term, even by itself (see https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/tier-1/_master/). We should use another name in our repos for the default branch.
The most common replacement seems to be "main", see e.g. T281593 and https://github.com/github/renaming. The latter also have instructions for how to do this on Github.