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Rename "stream" to "channel" in the UI #630

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This is the zulip-flutter counterpart of:

Unlike in zulip-mobile, in zulip-flutter let's do this unconditionally: we'll refer to a channel as a "channel" even on older servers where the web UI says "stream". By the time we roll out zulip-flutter to general users some months from now, it'll have been "channel" on Zulip Cloud and in the latest server release for at least a few months, so probably a relatively small fraction of users will be on older servers that use the old terminology, and it's OK if they see the new terminology in their mobile app.

(When we add wildcard mentions #234, those will need to condition on the server version, because it's a correctness issue: sending @**channel** to an older server just won't work. (I'll update #234 to note that.) But that's a lot more localized.)

This issue is purely about the user-facing strings: everywhere we say "stream" to the user, we should say "channel" instead. I'll file a follow-up issue for renaming identifiers in our codebase.

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