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The way we spontaneously frame the problem—whether by questioning the (ir)responsibility of algorithms, or by trying to positively grant them a full subjectivity or some measure of agentivity—rests on theoretical grounds that appear to be essentially flawed. We will find a steadier ground in a theory of the co-constitution of the subjects and their technical mediations, and we will study the particular case of peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange communities, to eventually confirm the common intuition according to which the delegation of a moral or ethical decision to an algorithm may fall within the field of dispossession, yet also show that under certain circumstances, it could also be the condition of its effectivity. Certain normative demands could require the collective power that is cast into an algorithm, which then holds up the moral load, to be fulfilled—precisely on account of the factuality of the algorithm, of its exteriority to human subjectivity.