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It is absolutely possible, but you probably won't be doing much else with it.
You're going to need a very specific phone. I actually tried doing this with an old blackberry phone I had, but even though I could run a Linux command prompt, I didn't have systemd or any other startup method so I wasn't able to run Apache or a copy of Lemmy as a service.
I have a pinephone, and that would be super easy to run with I believe, because it's just Debian -- and you can run Lemmy on Debian no problem. Thing is, at that point it's more just a computer running on phone hardware rather than your phone in the way that you're thinking.
I still believe that there is a way to be able to run let me in a Linux container on an Android phone, but there's such a thing as personal bandwidth and so I just haven't gotten around to try.
For both nostr and Lemmy, you are going to need a domain name, and that's going to be a bit of a problem. If your phone just stays at home and has the same IP address all the time that's one thing, but if you are on the road trying to host Lemmy then you could have new IP addresses constantly, articularly as you move from data to Wi-Fi and back. Your dynamic DNS would have to be no joke.
Yea that's where I'm not sure if I wanna do it on my phone or not. I could use my computer for sure. I want to create a non political instance
Wow that's really cool i didn't know this !