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Language: replace "upload" with "import" #817

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Current state

References to "upload" are everywhere

Proposed change

Rename labels and variable names from "upload" to "import"
(eg. "import to IPFS", /ipfs-companion-imports/ directory on MFS, etc).

Motivation

"upload to IPFS" brings some confustion, users reuse mental model of the old web suggesting that data is pushed to a third party server, while in truth data is just imported to local node and optionally preloaded to external one.

"import" is a safe alternative: Filecoin uses import term for similar purpose, and ipfs add may be renamed to ipfs import in the future (see ipfs-inactive/interface-js-ipfs-core#552).

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