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 - Profanity
     - You may need to manually trust their fingerprint
 
-## Development
-
-Read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
-
 ## Credit
 
 [Slixmpp OMEMO plugin | Copyright (C) 2010  Nathanael C. Fritz | Copyright (C) 2019 Maxime “pep” Buquet <pep@bouah.net>](https://codeberg.org/sxavier/slixmpp-omemo/src/branch/main/examples/echo_client.py)