Emoji Aliases (for both custom emoji and unicode emoji)

Many standard emojis have multiple shortcodes/aliases. For example, :thumbs_up: & :+1: both yield 👍, and :party_popper: & :tada: both yield 🎉.

This is a useful feature, because emojis might be used for multiple purposes, and having an alias for each purpose can turn emoji use into a sort of language. I have friends who don’t have nitro, but still use emoji shortcodes for the emojis they like, because the shortcode an emoji is given is often treated like an expression / reaction in-and-of itself (kinda like /me used to be).

I propose 2 changes:

Users should be able to set their own personal shortcodes for emojis they have access to (including standard unicode emojis)
Server owners should be able to set multiple aliases for the custom emojis they upload

I’ve seen server owners burn emoji slots as a workaround for 2, but this is hardly fair, since smaller servers have limited access to emoji slots when compared to bigger servers (who might have more nitro boosters). Implementing proposal 2 would at the very least level the playing field, and implementing 1 would just be a nice feature to have.

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