Is committing a minor sin with other people considered publicizing it?

The entire nation is pardoned except for the open sinners. An open sinner is one who disobeys Allah publicly, or one who commits a sin in secret and then tells people about it. These two types of individuals are not pardoned. For whoever openly commits a sin in front of people trivializes the sin in their hearts and encourages them to commit it. And whoever commits a sin secretly and then exposes himself has removed Allah's covering from himself.