@oedipusnj @skye @starry1086 @moss @MonaApp
There's no direct way to edit the short names / alt texts, but you can delete an emoji and then re-upload it with an edited short name.
I think this is because of how emoji are handled when typing them in a message? You can actually type an emoji by putting a colon : and then the shortname, so if the short name changed it would potentially break emoji already posted.