I use reddit spordically - [this](https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/) is my account. I got my job from something I posted on reddit so I still feel a little indebted to the site. Reading the default subreddits will probably cost you about 3-5 IQ points p.a. I don't know where the family hatred comes from either. It's really common on the advice subreddits. Reddit has always had the punk/atheist type stuff but now that more ordinary people use Reddit what they say can have an actual effect on society now. The increasing popularity of memes and videos over text probably isn't helping the site either. Such a shame.
I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick (using a paraphrasing API on other people's comments and submitting news from RSS feeds). I think I had a chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. I ran it for about two weeks before I lost interest. None of my accounts were limited in any way and I was just using publicly available Hola proxies. It seems that very little scrutiny is applied to the reddit mobile API. No captcha is required for registration (unlike the website) and no email is required.
I did one of these for Hulu (https://github.com/chris124567/hulu) a while back. It didn't take very long to write. Most of these programs are just using the pywidevine library along with some key that's been leaked (if you know how to navigate Github search you can find one in a couple of minutes) and then integrating the streaming site's API. I wrote mine in Go because I got sick of the pywidevine hegemony and I felt it was unnecessarily complicated. The annoying thing is that key revocations are happening pretty frequently now. It's another one of those pointless cat and mouse games.